Bay Area Reporter, Volume 13, Number 16, 21 April 1983

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VOL XIII NO. 16 APRIL 21, 1983

Union Shop Dispute

M City Deli Bucks Workers

Gay Employees Seek Better Conditions

by Mike Hippier

The sign on the door at New York City Deli on Market Street says “Closed for Remodeling: Will
Open Soon Under New Management.” A Public Notice of Application for Ownership Change is
posted on the adjacent window, however, indicating that more than remodeling and new manage¬
ment is at hand. Whatever is happening, the majority of the Deli’s former employees claim that
owner James Yu closed his doors because he didn’t want to unionize. And because they did, they
are all out of work.

In May 1982 the New York
City Deli, a popular restaurant
in the Castro/Church neighbor¬
hood, was sold by Melvin Leffer
to James Yu; and in the year
since, its employees have com¬
piled a long list of grievances
that eventually led them to de¬
mand a union. Their chief con¬
cern — job security. “The first
week he got there he fired six
people just to show his power as
the new owner,” claims one

former employee. “That’s the
way it started, and that’s the way
it continued.” From that first
week to closing, the restaurant
has had three different man¬
agers, and nearly 50% of its staff
has been fired. One employee,
Johnathan West, who was at the
Deli almost two years before Yu
took over, was fired a month be¬
fore the restaurant closed “sole¬
ly for being twenty minutes late
one time, even though I called in

advance and told them my car
had broken down.”

Job security is only one of the
workers’ complaints, however.
Yu refused to pay time and a half
for overtime, wouldn’t pay any¬
thing at all for hours worked be¬
yond an eight-hour shift, re¬
arranged schedules without
notice, and denied standard
health benefits. “He even accus¬
ed people of stealing food,” says
(Continued on page 10)

A News Analysis

Employees and labor activists protest new owner’s treatment at

original counterculture New York City Deli on Market Street.

Dianne Feinstein chats with backers in Outer Mission home of her friend Allan Johnson the weekend before the big
vote on her future. (Photo: Rink}

Where AB-1 might and might
not go — George Menden
hall . p. 4

The newest round of court ap¬
pearances in the Hill case —
Michael Benzry ...... p. 10

What it's like to catch every
"Gay” disease going and still
carry on — Mike Hippier p. 14

Feminism and its literature —
Ron Bluestein.p. 20

"King of the Crystal Palace" —
a review by Scott Treimel p 23

Gay softball season starts p. 28

The Recall Countdown

Majority of Gays go with Feinstein

by George Mendenhall

The shouting is over. Even lovers who have disagreed with each
other have long since stopped discussing it. Those who did not
vote by mail will line up at the polls on Tuesday. They will be
surveying who their Gay neighbors are and casting votes — for
and against Mayor Dianne Feinstein. Almost everyone agrees that
it is a popularity contest in the Gay community with the mayor’s
position on domestic partners legislation considerably more im¬
portant than gun control.

Gay voters, it appears, will be
supporting the mayor because of
her consistent pro-Gay stance
over 14 years. A San Francisco
Examiner survey indicated that

the mayor will receive 71 % of the
Gay vote, although the overall
sampling done (503) was ques¬
tionably small. In February the
(Continued on page 12)

* VOTE 1’ APRIL 26 ★

AIDS & Co. Strikes Back

The letter which follows was being widely circulated in the com¬
munity this week. Numerous copies were mailed — from the mayor
to the political clubs, to the press. The signers are AIDS patients
and others — though one can’t be sure who’s who. It was mailed
from an address on 18th Street and no author is indicated.

And before it is twisted beyond redemption by detractors, we
felt the community would be best served by laying it open to our
readers and their responses.

Dr. Marcus Conant
President, Board of Directors
Kaposi’s Sarcoma Foundation

Weekly, the community is exposed to Paul Lorch’s editorials and
headlines regarding AIDS in the Bay Area Reporter. These ar¬
ticles are widely read and discussed and to many become gospel.
It seems to us that the publisher and editor have been less than
responsible in representing the theories and data surrounding
AIDS.

Of the people we speak to, including many other patients, we
find that many are distressed that this sensational approach to
reporting only fuels the fires of fear, guilt, homophobia and adds
to the everyday stresses patients must face in dealing with this ill¬
ness. Too often we patients are asked to leave restaurants and our
homes and are abandoned by those we feel are necessary to our
emotional support because of hysteria and misplaced fear.

It would be instructive and informative to advise the community
that this is not a socially casually contagious disease. Too often,
however, the issue of AIDS and the “victims ” themselves are
pawns on someone’s editorial, political, or monetary gameboard.

We also feel that the indirect editorial slander of those persons
and organizations which have helped us most, i.e. the Department
of Public Health, the Kaposi’s Sarcoma Foundation, the Shanti
Project, and our physicians and health care workers, is totally un¬
warranted and unjustified.

The Kaposi’s Sarcoma Foundation is a much needed organiza¬
tion with a dedicated group of paid and volunteer workers. Our
concern is that if Bob Ross allows his paper to be directed in this
manner and continues to hold a place on the Board of Directors
of the K.S. Foundation, that organization is going to lose a con¬
siderable amount of credibility in our community.

K. King
Jack Smith
Art Ogden
Michael-Sebastian S.
Michael Bosko
Richard Gamble
PatH.

Mark Feldman
Bobbi Campbell
Ross Reimuelle
Andrew Small

R. McCrary
Frank Bettencourt
Douglas Boss
Freddy Quinones
George Riley, M.D.
Robert Reynolds
Paul Landry
Ron Carey
Gary Walsh
C. Alessio
Paul Castro

Commented editor Paul Lorch, “I am distressed by the letter,
as I am solely responsible for the paper’s editorial content, and
I will respond to the signatories privately. However, there is nothing
to apologize for. My function is to illuminate, not curry favor or
win prizes.” ■

Alamo Park

Gay Man Left for Dead
in Cruising Area

Larry Johl. 32, recovering from a knife wound in the heart. (Photo: Rinkl

7 Concord Navy Women
Charged

Lesbian Clues, Drugs

by George Mendenhall

Five women at the Concord Naval Weapons Station in the East
Bay are awaiting a decision from Washington that could end
their Navy careers. Charges against two additional women have
been dropped. All were initially charged with being Lesbians
and with drug usage. They have had administrative hearings,
resulting in recommended discharges. The drug charges were
dropped.

by Randy Schell

Larry Johl, 32, was stabbed in
the heart on March 6, 1983. He
has no idea who stabbed him. In
fact, Larry Johl never saw the
knife or knew that he had been
stabbed. Had it not been for a
straight, punk-rocker and her
friend, Larry Johl would not be
alive today.

At 3:00 AM, Larry walked
through Alamo Square Park (a
late-night pick-up area) after
visiting friends earlier in the
evening. He lived a block away
from the park. He acknowledg¬
ed acquaintances of his while
strolling in the park. Other Gay
men were in the park and occa¬
sionally, glances were shared
with “hello’s”. Finally, he decid¬
ed it was time to go home .

On his way out of the park,
Larry noticed two men coming
towards him. Instinctively, he
felt uneasy, and his sixth sense
warned him to avoid them at all
costs. Next he took note of two
Gay men standing at the top of
the crest of the park. Thinking
that there is safety in numbers,
he moved towards the men on the

crest. Not soon enough.

The men who Larry attempt¬
ed to avoid, grabbed him in a
choke hold. They demanded
money. He could not tell them
that he had no money because
the choke hold suffocated his
words. Attempting to breathe, he
pushed the arm away from his
neck. That’s when he saw blood
gushing from his hand. In
seconds, his leather jacket was
ripped off and, he was thrown
violently to the ground. The
assailants tried to remove his
leather pants. They managed to
get the pants down to his ankles.
What happened afterwards is
sketchy, but for whatever reason,
the assailants fled and left Larry
on the ground with a stab wound
to the heart and lacerations to
the hands. He never knew what
hit him; he had passed out.

When he regained conscious¬
ness, his first instinct was to pull
his pants up. He couldn’t. He
was soaked with rain, mud and
blood. When he tried to stand,
he fell. In spite of the loss of
blood and confused terror, he
figured out that he was at least

30 feet from where he had been
struck down.

Larry knew that something
was desperately wrong. He yell¬
ed into the darkness; “Help me,
help me.” Consciousness left
him, once again. When he came
to, he heard voices. A woman
said, “we’re going to get help for
you .” Larry pleaded to her,
“please don’t leave me, please.”
A man knelt down beside him
while the woman ran across the
park. She hailed a cab and asked
the driver to call the ambulance.
After waiting for some time, she
ran back through the park to her
friend and the dying man. The
ambulance still had not shown
up so her friend searched the
park until he found a fire alarm.
He pulled the lever of the alarm.
Shortly, fire trucks sped down
the street and he flagged them
down. Police and fire personnel
were led to Larry who laid there
whimpering, his hand held by a
woman he had never met.

The police report which was
filed, describes what the fire per¬
sonnel and police found:

“He was completely covered
with blood, mud and water.
Johl’s pants were pulled
down to his ankles. He had
cuts, scrapes and a stab type
wound in his upper center
chest area. He was located on
the path next to the restroom
area and tennis courts . ‘. . .
They took my leather jacket.

I want my glasses, find my
glasses’. Johl went into shock
and was unable to give any
further information.”

Prior to the police arriving,
Larry thought he saw a man he
had seen earlier in the evening
while strolling through the park.
But, but the time the police
came, he was gone. However, the
straight punk-rocker stayed with
him. So did her friend. They
talked to the police and fire men.
They watched him placed in an
ambulance. They watched the
ambulance carrying him away in
the rain.

Larry Johl spent three days in
intensive care at San Francisco
General Hospital. Six days later
he left the hospital with ban¬
dages over his chest and ques¬
tions on his mind. The questions
have had a habit of repeating
themselves. Why didn’t his Gay
brothers come to his aid? What
prompted them to leave during
this crisis? Why did another Gay
man rush away when the police
arrived? What precipitated a
straight woman of another
culture to act as the good
Samaritan?

Perhaps none of these ques¬
tions will ever be answered for
Larry Johl. Larry Johl is alive
and well in San Francisco and
has a lifetime to find the
answers. ■

The five women are friends
who worked together in the Tug
Boat detail at Concord. All re¬
fused to discuss their sex lives
with Naval investigators in
March. They are not sure where
all the accusations came from,
although two came from straight
women. One claims that she dis¬
covered two of the accused wo¬
men in bed together and a sec¬
ond said she lived off-base with
two of the women. She identified
them as lovers.

The first indication that there
was trouble was in February
when the Naval Intelligence Ser¬
vice approached two of the wo¬
men who it knew lived together
off-base. The NIS asked per¬
mission to search their home,
and the women, feeling they had
nothing to hide, agreed. At the
residence, the investigators
claim they found an incriminat¬
ing letter and an unsigned note
that read “I love you.” The
women were questioned exten¬
sively.

Investigators began to follow
the women without their knowl¬
edge, and on March 22 five ad¬
ditional women were called in
for lengthy interrogations. Two
women were told they had been
seen together “being affection¬
ate” in Our Bar, a Vallejo Gay
bar.

Linda Hladek, the civilian
companion of one of the accused
women, works in San Francisco.

The suitcoat and tie affair in
the Green Room of the Museum
of Modern Arts Building was by
invitation, with the lists drawn
from the private mailing lists of
several prominent Gay men.
“There’s a lot of money in this
room,” quipped an invitee.

The benefit was organized to
demonstrate that most of the
City’s Gays, especially the
“establishment” Gays, support
Feinstein in her struggle against
the recall election. The recall
was initiated by a tiny, radical

She related to this reporter that
she had contacted the American
Civil Liberties Union for advice
in March when investigators
wanted to search her home. She
denied them access. Hladek says
the women have been fearful of
consulting private attorneys to
handle their cases for fear of
repercussions from the military.
Navy attorneys at Treasure Is¬
land represented the women at
their March hearings.

All seven women were trans¬
ferred to Mare Island Naval
Station on March 23 — the day
after they were charged. The
hearings were held quickly, with
the women denying all. They
were tried by a 3-man panel of
two Navy officers and one
Marine officer. The recommen¬
dations: that two receive “less
than honorable” discharges, two
receive honorable discharges,
and that one receive a “general
discharge under honorable con¬
ditions.” All the discharges are
based on alleged homosexuality.

The five women facing dis¬
charge all had excellent military
records. Their concern now is
that the discharges might some¬
how affect their future civilian
employment. They do not want
their names released to the pub¬
lic, although some of the women
state they will talk later — if
they are discharged. They would
have six months to appeal then-
cases. ■

group of pro-gun enthusiasts
called the White Panthers, but
it’s been held that many of the
signators on the petition were
Gays disenchanted with the
mayor’s veto of the domestic
partnership bill.

The special election April 26
is estimated to cost $450,000.
Although, technically, the mayor
can bill the city for the entire ex¬
pense, she has pledged to pay for
the election herself. Her cam¬
paign has so far raised $441,000.

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at Green Room fundraiser. (Photo: Rink)

Feinstein Supporters Raise $12,000

by Wayne April

The “No Recall” party thrown by interior designer Billy
Gaylord last Tuesday for Mayor Dianne Feinstein attracted over
450 supporters and collected $12,000 for her campaign war chest,
according to benefit committee member Alan Johnson.

BAY AREA REPORTER APRIL 21, 1983 PAGE 2

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A News Analysis

AB-1 in Mid-Passage

Will Gays rally? Was GOP excluded?

What is the Agnos game plan?

by George Mendenhall

“We think that discrimination on the basis of sexual preference is no more defensible than is
prejudice on the grounds of race or religion,” editorialized the Los Angeles Times last Sunday as
it urged the state legislature to pass AB-1. The bill authored by Assemblyman Art Agnos would make
it unlawful for employers to discriminate in the hiring or placement of people solely because of
their sexual orientation. Agnos is asserting considerable effort to move the bill through the
Assembly. However, as in the past, his effort is not without its problems.

Two hurdles are in the way:
Gay Democratic activists who
are somewhat “burned out”
from previous sojourns to Sacra¬
mento to lobby for AB-1 and
Assembly Republicans who are
reluctant to support what they
perceive as Democratic Party
legislation. The usual extensive
anti-Gay lobbying from the reli¬
gious Right further complicates
the effort.

Agnos is using two Gay aides
to promote AB-1. Cleve Jones is
the San Francisco/Sacramento
liaison for the effort and Eric
Schockman will move across the
state in May in an attempt to
stimulate lobbying efforts at the
grass-roots level. Jim Foster,
longtime Gay activist, is on the
telephone with his political
contacts.

The religious Right is working
overtime with letter-writing to
Sacramento. It is the same net¬
work that worked for the earlier
Proposition 6, former Senator
John Briggs’ earlier attempt to
ban Gay teachers. Letters to leg¬

islators are running as high as
25-1 against AB-1. Agnos states
that he is working to line up an
impressive list of pro-AB-1 spon¬
sors from the broader religious
community.

REPUBLICANS NEEDED

The bill’s author needs six
more votes in the Assembly. He
has 35 of the 48 Democrats com¬
mitted but is unable to get more
Democrats willing to support the
issue at this time. He admits that
he must have some Republican
support but states that he has
none at this point. (Bay Area
Reporter has learned that there
is one Republican who says he
will vote YES — Assemblyman
Bill Filante of Marin County.)

Agnos is seeking to enlist Gay
Democrats to lobby Assembly
Republicans while the local
Concerned Republicans for
Individual Rights officers claim
they have not had contact with
Agnos. Duke Armstrong,
CRIR’s state legislative chair,
says, “The bill should have been

more bipartisan from the start.
Bay Area Republicans in the
Assembly tell me that they do
not oppose the content of the bill
but they oppose it because it has
become a matter of partisan
politics. I am meeting with
Agnos this week but this is our
first meeting. We have never
been asked in the past to con¬
tribute to the lobbying effort.”

Bob Bacci, CRIR president,
said, “If the Republicans had
been permitted to make it their
bill also by adding something
like Housing Rights, then it
would have a better chance of
passage in the Assembly and the
Senate.” When approached with
these conclusions, Agnos’ aide
Schockman replied, “The credit
will be to the state legislature —
not just the Democrats — if this
passes. Republicans can be ap¬
proached by anyone on the basic
fact that this is a matter of dis¬
crimination.”

The state-wide coordination
for AB-1 is sporadic at best. The
state Gay lobbying group, Cali¬

fornia Human Rights Advo¬
cates, closed its Sacramento
doors in 1981 after failing to raise
enough operational funds.
Agnos is pleased that there was
a recent AB-1 Day in Southern
California and Gay businessmen
have formed an AB-1 support
group in the Central Valley com¬
munities of Fresno and Modesto.

SAN FRANCISCO

San Francisco Democratic
Party Gay activists have been
preoccupied in the recall election
and a variety of other issues such
as El Salvador and AIDS/KS. If
they are convinced that AB-1
can pass in this session, there
might be an escalation of effort
on AB-1 in May. The big ques¬
tion they have, after five years of
attempts, is “Does AB-1 really
have a chance of passage this
time?”

Agnos states that “many San
Francisco people have forgotten
what things are like ninety miles
from here. The opposition is go¬
ing from pulpit to pulpit saying
all sorts of outrageous nonsense
about this bill and Gay people.”
He believes the bill has a real
chance of passage in the Assem¬
bly and he is hopeful about the
Senate.

Schockman stresses that
“things look wonderful” in the
current make-up of the Senate
committees that will be consid¬
ering the legislation, Industrial
Relations and Finance. The bill
passed the Assembly committees
with some ease, Labor and
Education (7-5) and Ways and
Means (12-8).

The effort will be on three
fronts in May — with mid-June
being the final period in which
an Assemby vote can be taken in
this session. Agnos says the

threefold effort will be the organ¬
izing of religious support, the
lobbying of Assembly Republi¬
cans, and obtaining editorial
support from major city dailies.
If the measure passes the
Assembly by mid-June, it may
not reach the Senate floor until
December.

HURDLES AHEAD

Republican Assembly Caucus
Chair William Mountjoy (Los
Angeles) has not expressed sup¬
port for AB-1 and the GOP
Minority Leader, Bob Naylor
(Redwood City), has told Gay
Republicans he “will not help.”
The editorially conservative San
Francisco daily newspapers have
not endorsed AB-1. The Los
Angeles Times reports, “The
bill’s prospects in the more con¬
servative Senate are doubtful.” A
positive note: The word is out
that Governor George Deukme-
jian would probably not veto the
bill if it reached his desk.

Complacency and opposition
also confronted Assemblyman
Willie Brown, however, in the six
years that he promoted a private,
consensual sex bill. When it did
pass in 1975, it surprised many
complacent Gay people.

Agnos has been criticized by
some for adjusting his bill to
overcome opposition from law
enforcement and business asso¬
ciations.

The Agnos bill would, with
the exceptions, bar all compa¬
nies, private and public, from
refusing to hire or promote a per¬
son solely on the basis of sexual
orientation. It adds “sexual ori¬
entation” to the list of other
unlawful employment practices
that come under the jurisdiction
of the state’s Fair Employment
and Housing Commission. ■

JOIN US IN VOTING NO ON APRIL 26

". . . Mayor Feinstein has performed
the duties of het office diligently and
with a genuine concern for the best
interests of all San Franciscans"

Sheriff Michael Hennessey

"This special election, months before a
regular election, simply isn't justified"

Supervisor Richard Hongisto

"We consider the recall of Mayor Dianne Feinstein unwarranted"

Supervisor Nancy Walker
Supervisor Doris Ward

"Mayor Feinstein has pledged to
initiate a new era of cooperation be¬
tween her office and the lesbian/gay
community"

Greg Day

"Dianne Feinstein is responsible for
funding Community United Against
Violence—the only anti-gay violence
agency financed by a city government
in the country" .

Diana Christensen

"In my opinion, she's the best Mayor in
the country"

Congressman Phillip Burton

"I'm opposed to the recall because it
leaves us with politicians afraid to take
strong positions on any issues"

Jack Trujillo

Mayor Feinstein has been exception¬
ally supportive of the lesbian/gay
community's needs for health services,
particularly at this critical time"

Pat Norman

'... We are urging you to take the time
to vote on April 26. and to vote NO"

Assemblyman Art Agnos

"We shouldn't turn our backs on Mayor
Feinstein's past and current support for
lesbian/gay rights. Vote NO on the

"Dianne and I don't always agree on
issues, but she has been an honor¬
able mayor and gives her best to San
Francisco”

Supervisor Carol Ruth Silver

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"Mayor Feinstein has conscientiously
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which she was elected..."

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BAY AREA REPORTER APRIL 21, 1983 PAGE 4

be good for him in the long run.
I think he learned something
from it.”

Although Juarez feels that
this is mainly a misfortunate in¬
cident which has been blown up
out of proportion, he is sorry for
the insult to the Gay commu¬
nity, and he has written a letter
to the B.A.R. apologizing to
Brown and explaining Bud’s
position. “The shirt was
wrong,” he admits, ‘‘but I don’t
think there is any prejudice here
against any group. And we don’t
discriminate against Gays.” Al¬
though there are no Gay em¬
ployees at Bud’s now, there have
been in the past. Juarez does not
know whether or not Bud’s
makes contributions to any Gay
benefits or causes, but he states
that they are always willing to
consider requests. (A contribu¬
tion to the KS Foundation or
some similar gesture of goodwill
was requested by Brown and
Morack before they would con¬
sider going back to Bud’s.)

As a result of Brown’s letter to
B.A.R., the Health Department
sent a man over to write a report
on the incident. Bud’s hardly
needs this kind of publicity,
since just two years ago it was
the center of a city-wide hepa¬
titis scare when one of its em¬
ployees contracted Hepatitis A,
and the Health Department
issued a public health warning.
As it is hardly company policy
for its employees to spit in ice

Not until Brown got back to
his car did he find out from his
lover, who was watching all this
from the parked car, that while
he was talking to the person in
charge, the server with the ne¬
farious T-shirt was putting the
ice cream in his mouth before
spitting it back out into Brown’s
sundaes. “I couldn’t believe it,”
says Morack. “If Bob hadn’t
walked out when he did, I would
have gone in and raised hell
myself.”

Infuriated, the two vowed
never to set foot in Bud’s again,
a store they had been patron¬
izing ever since Magnolia Thun-
derpussy served Montana Bana¬
nas across the street in the late
1960’s, and they dashed off a let¬
ter of protest to the B.A.R ., call¬
ing for a community-wide boy¬
cott. “I think a store that would
hire someone like that doesn’t
need my business,” says Brown.
“That kid had no right to use the
store as a forum for his own per¬
sonal feelings, especially when
the store is so close to the Castro
area and he is likely to offend so
many people.” Neither Brown
nor Morack feels this is a minor
matter. “This sort of thing is
getting closer to home all the
time, and it’s getting more and
more noticeable. We’ve got to
put a stop to it, and speaking out
like this is one way to do it.”

Dave Juarez, the manager of
the Bud’s store, wishes, of
course, that the entire incident
had never taken place. He was
not at work the night of Brown’s
visit. The person Brown assum¬
ed was the manager, Juarez ex¬
plains, was the senior employee,
a young man not much older
than the kid in question. The
young man with the T-shirt,
“Ben” wasn’t supposed to work
that night either. He just hap¬
pened to be passing by when one
of the other employees asked
him to fill in for him. That’s why
he was wearing the T-shirt at
work — and he did finally take
it off after Brown left.

Imbroglio at Ice Cream
Emporium

Irate Bud’s Ice Cream customers Sande Morack and Bob Brown. (Photo:
Rink)

cream sundaes, however, there
is little the Health Department
can or will do about this affair.

Whether or not the incident
will hurt Bud’s business is still
unclear, although it is unlikely.
And whether or not Brown and
Morack will accept Juarez’s
apology and return to Bud’s is
also undecided. They have stood
up for their rights, and besides,
there are plenty of other ice
cream stores in the neighbor¬
hood. The biggest question

mark, however, remains the
fired employee, Ben. Will the in¬
cident teach him something, as
Juarez believes, or will it em¬
bitter him further against Gay
people in San Francisco? Ben
might, after all, blame the Gay
community for losing his job —
in which case, the oppressor,
having become a victim, be¬
comes an oppressor again, and
an insignificant little event at an
ice cream store becomes a minor
tragedy for the community at
large. ■

Showdown at 24th and Castro

by Mike Hippier

Bob Brown and Sande Morack have been lovers for sixteen
years and have lived in San Francisco since 1968. They have been
actively involved in various aspects of the Gay movement from
the early days of “Gay Liberation” to the present era of the “Gay
Community” and have worked hard to achieve the kind of free¬
dom many Gay people now take for granted. Rather than take
that freedom for granted, however, Brown and Morack believe
it is necessary to zealously safeguard what gains have been
achieved. Therefore, they are not the kind of men who, when
confronted with a situation that is either a threat or an insult to
their dignity, back down without a fight.

On Friday, March 25, at
about 7 or 8 in the evening,
Brown went into Bud’s Ice
Cream Store at 24th and Castro
to order two hot fudge sundaes
while his lover waited in the car
parked out front. To his surprise
and dismay he noted that the
server, a young man about 17
years old, was wearing a T-shirt
that read, “Fags Leave S.F.”
Astonished that he would be
allowed to wear such a shirt at
work, Brown spoke to the per¬
son he assumed was the man¬
ager and complained about it.

The “manager” replied that
he had been getting a lot of com¬
plaints all evening but that he
didn’t know what to do ahout it.
Brown continued to engage the
manager’s attention until the
sundaes were made. Then he
turned to the server and said,
“Fella, you just bought yourself
a couple of sundaes,” and
stormed out. “I knew I was go¬
ing to do one of two things,”
Brown explained later. “And
the kid was lucky. I almost shov¬
ed the ice cream in his face.” •

At a staff meeting the next
day, the employees barely men¬
tioned the incident, so Juarez
didn’t find out about it until he
saw Brown’s letter in the
B.A.R. Then he gave Ben, who
had only been working at Bud’s
two or three weeks anyway, a
week’s suspension. Later, after
Ben brought several of his
friends into the store after hours
one night, Juarez let him go.
“When I fired him, he said, ‘It
was the shirt, huh? ’ ” Juarez re¬
lates, “I told him that was part
of it. He said, I don’t think I’ll
wear it again,’ so I think it will

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VIEWPOINT

LETTERS

Recall

All Over, but the Sour Stomach

The original editorial written for this issue was composed
six weeks ago when the recall of Dianne Feinstein fell some¬
where in the realm of a remote possibility. It was written in
heat and passion that smoked from the icy rock of logic. It
was written, typeset, and put on the shelf for the issue of most
impact — like five days before the vote.

With the way things look now, the piece seems hardly
necessary because the back of the recall impetus was broken
weeks ago. And Dianne Feinstein has another five years as
mayor of San Francisco — getting herself re-elected by fighting
a repellent idea as opposed to a live opponent. She is entitled

— in a way — to next November's piece of cake because of
the degree of the insult of recall and the concomitant disgrace
that went with it.

In the past two months this paper has run letter on top of
letter of why the mayor should be recalled — giving the posi¬
tion more than ample exposure. Simultaneously, our fretful cor¬
respondents faulted us for trimming down their prolix testi¬
monials. So many began — or ended — with "we know you
won't print this . . . because it is opposed to your 'sell-out'
point of view,” and so we printed them. Uniform in their
stridency and repetition.

We were also chided for not spearheading the recall piddle

— because, after all, in 1979 — we supported Quentin Kopp.

As if we were obliged to zap Dianne yesterday, today, tomor¬
row, and forever.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

These thoughts being written, Sunday's S.F. Examiner
released its poll on the recall that predicts the mayor will sweep
with 80% of the vote. It will be a total rout.

Gay voters — city-wide — says the poll — are behind the
mayor by a 71% to 25% margin. And only 6% of 25% said
that they don't like her stand on Gay issues.

"Gays, who have been regarded as a potentially trouble¬
some voting bloc — accounting for 18% of those surveyed
in the poll — appear to be lining up solidly in her favor.”

Moreover, while 72% of the Gays responded that Gay issues
were important in deciding how to vote — only 54% said that
the domestic partners ordinance was an important issue. The
survey reveals one more time something we have been say¬
ing for months: that domestic partners is not a high priority
item on the rank and file Gay person's agenda. And that to
those for whom it is important another 25% see it as bad
legislation.

The conclusions — regardless of what "60 Minutes” might
come up with on its pre-election special — the city's rank and
file Gays and Lesbians are staying with the mayor. They are
saying no to the White Panthers, and no to the euphemistically
labeled progressives.

Given a choice between the Britt cabal and City Hall, the
Gay community is standing behind Dianne Feinstein. This, too,
the mayor has been saying from the outset. Our next chapter
will be to see how forgiving she will be of the renegades.
Regardless of what will be said — a handful of Gay political
careers are in store for a long limbo.

ALL IN THE CONGRESSIONAL FAMILY

From this desk let it be stated for the record that we don't
like the idea of any political office being handed down in a kind
of divine right of kingship. The objection is not to the person
herself but to the exploitation of the widowhood and the or¬
chestrated media blitz to scare off any challengers.

The fflh.Congressional seat is vacant. It doesn't belong to
the Burton family. And all comers should be welcomed — nay,
encouraged — to present their case to the electorate. But the
freeze-out has taken place. Let us hope we don't rue the day
... as I suspect we will.

The close-out may be good politics — which is not the same
as good government. p , u| ^

A Vote by Mail is Not a Vote

★ I find it ludicrous that people would criticize lawsuits
filed to block Dianne Feinstein from coercing some
50,000 people to vote against her recall by mail.

Perhaps they might recall that Supervisor Harry Britt
had a proposition put on the ballot awhile back asking
the voters to approve local elections by mail so as to
reduce their costs. The mayor and the business com¬
munity both criticized the plan because of potential for
vote fraud. The voters, I presume listening to their ad¬
vice, voted against voting by mail. I also recall a lot of
talk about that time that one cannot put a price tag
on democracy and it costs what it costs etc.

Now we must spend $400,000 on a special election
which Mayor Feinstein and her supporters decry the
cost of and they offer this as an excuse as to why the
mayor should be retained. One should vote to retain the
mayor as a protest against the cost of the election. This
type of thinking is supposed to be an example as to how
the mayor and her supporters are rational and her op¬
ponents are irrational.

The anti-recall forces are abusing the absentee voting
process. Traditionally and legally in almost every other
state in the union except California, people can apply
for absentee ballots for only two reasons. 1.) the voter
will be out of town or 2.) they are physically incapable
of going to the polls on election day. By signing-up
50,000 people for absentee ballots, the mayor, is con¬
ducting an election by mail going against the wishes
of the voters who have voted against this idea in a re¬
cent election.

George Collins
San Francisco

Castro Bus Leader Responds

★ As a well-seasoned tour guide/director in San Fran¬
cisco, I feel obligated to respond to your recent guest
column on Tourist Buses Through the Castro. Being
openly gay, and residing in the very heart of the Castro,
I have obviously given this subject great thought. Mr.
Basch’s facts were relatively accurate, his interpretation,
I sense, faulty.

I have spent nearly six years now leading groups
around the hills and valleys of our legendary city. I ad¬
mit to having the pleasure of working almost exclusively
with foreign (largely European) groups, whose perspec¬
tive on the sexual issue is markedly more liberal, and
yet equally as significant and influential as with
American tourists.

There are so many factors to be addressed here, and
I can only touch upon a few. To begin, I heartily disagree
that “every right we’ve gained is being raped in public
with few noticing.” Them’s harsh words, Tom, and lack¬
ing in consciousness. Of course, he’s correct in wanting
to know what we’re telling these people.

Indeed, “these people” don’t specifically pay to see
Castro Street, nor to see a hundred other city streets
and sights covered on the usual tourist route. However,
the Castro just happens to have a lot of valuable insights
for visitors, as well as lying geographically between the
sights of the Mission and the views of the Twin Peaks.
I, in fact, make every attempt to cover at least some
gay terrain during any city tour I lecture, as I have a
profusion of positive and healthy things to relate to my
people on the minority/gay issue in San Francisco.

Truly, it’s all in the presentation, and not all tour
escorts care to speak of what they are not comfortable
or knowledgeable with — certainly in wanting to hide
from his fellow tourists, Mr. Basch is merely exposing
his own discomfort. Not to be misread, I too prefer my
privacy, yet in working with charming and enthralled
visitors from many countries, I happily get to see both
sides.

Let me assure all you dissidents out there that many
of us tour leaders put out just the message that the world
needs for greater unity and acceptance. What they
“want to see,” Mr. Basch, is very simply what they are
shown, therefore, you and I are the crucial element that
can make all the difference. The response I elicit from

my tourists is that of agreement at my own honesty and
delight in the ethnic and sexual diversity of our city,
and inevitably, this is the overwhelming response I get.

Lastly, differing once again with Mr. Basch, I ada¬
mantly oppose (alas, too late?) running trolleys into the
Castro. Showing our visitors the diversity of San Fran¬
cisco life on tours is one thing, but, since tourists have
absolutely nothing otherwise attracting them into our
neighborhood but the gays, 1 am personally most
anxious to do without polaroid-polyester suits invading
my garden and a quaint corner McDonald’s to keep
us all fed! Give it some profound thought.

Tom Gschwind
San Francisco

Russian River Ain’t What It Used to Be

★ What has happened to that once quiet, inexpensive
town of Guemeville?

I remember several years ago, spending some exciting
and relaxing weekends at the Russian River. Now the
room rates are outrageous, cover charges to get into bars
and discos. Another gay rip-off?

As a gay, small business owner, I understand the ever¬
growing cost of running a business.

The River is becoming a place where those people
living in the Bay Area cannot afford to visit and will
be turned into a high-priced resort area catering to peo¬
ple from out of town.

There are some excellent accommodations in other
nearby resort areas that are less expensive and offer that
once tranquil feeling of Guemeville.

I called one resort, Femgrove, this week for Memorial
Day weekend reservations. I was told to call back a cou¬
ple of weeks before Memorial Day. They were only ac¬
cepting reservations for week-long stays at this time.
How can you plan a three-day holiday weekend with
such short notice?

These guys have an attitude and the gay community
should be made aware of this fact.

I called another resort and we received a confirmed
reservation for our party of four.

I think it is time gays and lesbians should become
more select and gay newspapers accepting ads from
these resorts should set up a rating system, as AAA or
other organizations.

A Local Castro Businessman
San Francisco

Ways to Help

★ Week after week I have been reading letters in the
B.A.R. asking what could a concerned person do to
help fight AIDS. Of course one could contribute to the
KS Foundation, but unless one can give lots of money,
that would only make the tiniest difference.

I’m a volunteer at the Community Thrift Shop, and
as many know, so far we have raised about $13,000 to
contribute to KS. Thanks to the support of the com¬
munity, we have received more donations than we can
handle. In fact, donations are stacked up to the ceil¬
ing! Most of those donations are earmarked for KS,
but the problem is that we just don’t have enough volun¬
teers to process, price, and sell the merchandise. There
are days when we are so shorthanded we can’t even open
the store.

To those who have some time to spare — PLEASE
help us. You will find volunteering at the thrift shop
a rewarding experience, and will feel you are doing some¬
thing of importance to help defeat this disaster that has
hit our community.

Please don’t use my name, as I am not volunteering
for the sake of recognition from others.

Name withheld by request
San Francisco

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LETTERS

Life with Father

★ There have been occasions in the past when certain
layouts, advertisements or cartoons have been offensive
to me in the Bay Area Reporter, but have never brought
myself to give it high enough priority to write you about
it.

But in view of the difficult political, medical and
psychological agendas facing the Gay community and
your paper’s professed desires to deal with and over¬
come these concerns, i.e.., AIDS, AB1, backlash of the
New Right, and the Domestic Partners legislation, your
sometimes excellent reportage is frequently negated by
your insistence on sinking to exceedingly graphic crotch
level thinking. I am referring to your numerous photos
and drawings of penises in various stages of excitation
as exemplified in Pom Comer, Cruzon Comer [sic] and
escort ad photos.

Your paper in many ways supports sexual objectifica¬
tion and self-victimization through these images. What
have those who have acted on and lived by this more
negative side of Gay liberation gained by it? I think
you know the answer.

I am eagerly awaiting your usual well-constructed
and witty self-defenses.

Ron Myers
San Francisco

ED. NOTE: To us who create the stuff of the paper ,
an air-brushed Gay liberation will be the turning of
a high stepper to a plough horse. That day will some¬
day come, but we will have long since folded our tents.
And that wit you refer to will be less by half . . .

P. Lorch

Any Takers?

★ I am writing for information on how I can go about
receiving the Bay Area Reporter newspaper from you.

I am from San Francisco, 10th Avenue, but am now
in prison at California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo,
CA.

I read the B.A.R. while living in S.F. and enjoy it
very much. And would like very much to get it here while
in prison. I do not have money, so I can’t pay for the
paper.

There are a lot of Bay Area people here at CMC that
I would pass the paper on to, after I myself have read
it, and I know they would enjoy reading it.

You cooperation and understanding in this matter
would be most appreciated.

Hope to hear from you real soon.

Dennis Emond
C-56617, C-5368
P.O. Box “A” CMC
San Luis Obispo, CA 93409

Sticking a Dick

★ In your April 7 issue, Karl Stewart’s column express¬
ed one of the ugliest aspects of homosexual amorality.
So, he’s going to “stick his dick (and everything else)
where it doesn’t belong,” to hell with AIDS and the
almost equally destructive diseases that we gays have
a monopoly on in the varied forms of human sexuali¬
ty! He “considers it his birthright as a free Gay male
to pursue any and all avenues of erotic pleasure! ” If
a child cannot have every toy his ignorant eyes focus
upon, whether they have sharp edges and/or toxic sur¬
faces, he STILL insists upon the temporary possession
and rough handling of each toy.

The learned doctors are telling us that the over¬
whelming majority of AIDS victims ARE gay males!
Most of the articles I have seen in gay publications, con¬
cerning AIDS and the symphony of other diseases we
have combated almost exclusively in the “gay” world,
constantly point visionlessly to the tiny minority of the
“other” victims of this, so far, completely fatal disease:
a scattering of Haitians, vein-piercing drug users, hemo¬
philiacs, and a couple of straight female streetwalkers!
Come on! Are we so self-centered in our supposed
wonderful and very young, but hideously limited, free¬
dom, that we consider ourselves and our lifestyles im¬
mune to reality!

In our various degrees of drag; be it a sweatered Polk
Street pavement pounder, a Castro Street human but¬
tress leaning against his four-square-foot section of
sidewalk facade with the gargoyle of still facial hair
balanced by keys without locks, and the leather gowns
of chains, spikes, and blackness along the Folsom stage
set, we OWE it to each other in our “gay world” to col¬
lectively, and finally, realize our common humanity and,
hopefully, decency, in a forever situated heterosexual
world.

Since most of us grew up in a world that was never
defined, physically, emotionally, and barely historically;
we owe it to each other to support and reinforce our rare
sexuality, and consequently, to have the greatest respect
for each other’s minds and bodies.

The hideousness of this AIDS epidemic might bring
us to our hidden maturity. Every body that we genitally
manipulate also has a mind, a face, and a personal
history.

William Arbonies
San Francisco

Forwarned is —

★ Gentlemen, if we do not regulate all our baths, bars,
& theatres to well-lit movie watching masturbation (the
lowest risk “man-to-man love style”) they are going to
be closed down by our enemies. We must do it and say
so with proof.

AIDS has changed Gay-life forever! That’s all —

M. H. Murphy
San Francisco

Another Way into Print

★ My enjoyment of your “Letters” column was
heightened by the best letter next to the worst letter con¬
cerning the recall (4/7/83, Neilson/Ditewig).

It saddens me, also, that we are not together on this
issue. I cannot imagine any semi-conscious (and higher
functioning) person not having several problems with
the way Dianne has chosen to foiget campaign promises,
and her lack of regard for public sentiment. To fall prey
to all the asinine reasons to foiget this record saddens
me, also. We don’t owe apologies to anyone for feelings
of wanting to make a statement, dramatic as it may be.
We do have the eyes of the country watching us, and
to flinch now, in the face of power and money brokers
is grotesque.

My feeling about being connected to the White Pan¬
thers is anger. Anger that it wasn’t Gay leaders leading
the recall. At this point I feel as if I would vote and
campaign for Tim, Carole, and/or Paul. I am proud
they came out of this closet, too!

If the recall wins, it will be the grassroots movement
of the century. Is it time for the common people to have
some real power and say-so! ? With all that is going on
around me, I certainly hope so.

I doubt I would appreciate any chiding from your
handsome, but consistently off-the-wall editor. I hope
his attempts at intimidation don’t work very often.

Bob Lewis
San Francisco

Cops to be Damped

★ Let’s all make a deal with Feinstein this April 26th.
Concerning her subordinate renegade queer-basher,
Sgt. Gregory Corrales, whom she harbors in her police
department:

If she fires him and brings him to justice for all the
crimes he’s bringing down on us and other communities
then we’ll see it as a strong enough show of good faith
to deserve a NO vote.

It’s her or Corrales and ilk. Let .her decide.

Kenneth W. Lundgren
San Francisco

ED. NOTE: The hiring or firing of a police person
is not within the power of the mayor. That pleasure
or pain is the justification of the chief and the Police
Commission.

P. Lorch

Time to Nest

★ I’m seeing a great deal of psychological projection
manifested in the many theories on the causes of AIDS.
Those who have not been into rimming are quick to
point a finger at this risky practice; those who are of¬
fended by FFA want to blame the fist-fuckers; those who
are uptight about piss, blame piss; amyl-haters point
at amyl. The fact is, no one knows what’s to blame,
and there’s scarcely a sexual activity under suspicion
that hasn’t been engaged in with relative impunity for
all human history. One thing I would like to point out
is that — if lubricating a partner’s ass with a wet hand
is now to be considered dangerous — we should be
equally frightened of all the partially used, surely con¬
taminated, jars of lubricant that are sitting all over town.
Perhaps it is time to return to KY, which always stayed
untouched and sterile inside the tuba

That the long glorious party has ended in tragedy
does not diminish the gratitude I feel toward the count¬
less strangers in private clubs who over the years, one
by one, helped me to liberate myself from the damag¬
ing ideas inflicted on me by those who held me hostage
during the first sixteen years of my Ufa I’m not one to
put down private clubs; nevertheless, when the com¬
munity is dying, when fantasies of sex must suddenly
become confused with fantasies of death, it seems unreal
to be offered jack-off nights and cockfights for solace.

I was touched by the letter from the dying brother
who regretted not having stayed home more often to
make cookies. We are a culturally enriched community,
talented beyond measure. San Francisco is the intellec¬
tually vital, visually beautiful city that it is because of
our presence. Within ourselves, we have far more re¬
sources to deal with the present emergency than other
communities would have in similar circumstances. Now
is a good time to re-do the garden, redecorate the apart¬
ment, or go out of town. The desert around Lancaster
will be ablaze with wildflowers from the end of April
until the end of May; better this year than in the last
twenty because of the heavy winter rains.

“Nesting” is an instinct quite common to gay men.
We need to be proud of this instinct; it may save our
lives. Those of us who are lucky enough to have teddy
bears should cherish them more than ever. Jack off if
that’s your bag, but be glad for our many other alterna¬
tives. I think of a license plate frame I saw in the Castro
that said, “It’s OK to be gentle. Men.” Being gay is
a very gutsy thing to be, and with our courage and our
good sense, we can live beyond our present crisis and
become a more mellow and loving community in the
process.

Gerald A. Martin
San Francisco

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LETTERS

Clones and Fools

★ I recently lost a friend of sixteen years to AIDS. That
is what prompted my letter which you printed in your
last issue titled “Coming Out Again.” I think your
editor’s note was unfair in that it interpreted my last
line as cruel and shallow.

One of my friend’s last wishes before he died was that
somehow Gay men would wake up and see the conse¬
quences of their lifestyle. We have all said it at one time
or another, how nice it would be if we had an alternative
to bars and baths.

I’m glad the AIDS is making clones look like fools.
That’s how they look to me after seeing the pain and
humiliation my friend suffered during his last days.
Shallow is listening to someone talking about how many
dicks he can suck in one night. Cruel is knowing that
the consequences of that act may take a human life.

I don’t apologize for what I said. If anyone is offended
that’s too bad. My statement is a reflection of the.pain
I feel and the hopelessness I see. How many dead bodies
will it take to wake these fools up?

Robert Starkey
San Francisco

ED. NOTE: I stand somewhat corrected. But what
is it you want people to wake up to? That sex is evil?
That by indulging in it we are subject to punishment ?
That sex is bad for the health ? Why do clones deserve
some sort of come uppance? Isn’t a clone everyman
. . . you and I?

P. Lorch

Which Way to Go

★ From a humane and pragmatic standpoint, it is easy
to approve of the Feinstein plan to subsidize 182 new
houses with $10 million from the budget surplus. But
when we consider the reasons that people can’t afford
to buy a house in San Francisco, and the logic and possi¬
ble effects of such public subsidies of private business,
this program becomes less attractive.

San Francisco real estate values in the 1970’s escalated
far beyond realistic levels. High interest rates, caused
by massive government and corporate borrowing, made
it nearly impossible for ordinary citizens to obtain or
repay a home loan. But now that this unrestrained spirit
of free enterprise in housing has resulted in a housing
market that has no buyers, is it right to maintain these
unrealistic land values and interest rates by a direct sub¬
sidy with general tax funds, as Feinstein proposes?

Similarly, American business, pursuing profit with
little social conscience, is now unable to provide
Americans with enough jobs. Reagan proposes giving
tax dollars directly to corporations so that they can pro¬
vide jobs.

My concern is not so much with the immediate right-
wing effects of these plans of government subsidy of
privately owned businesses (what some call “Welfare
for the rich”), but with the inevitable pressure from the
left that will be perhaps even nationalization, of those
private businesses that thus become dependent on
public support. If we really want a political-economic
system resembling national socialism, let’s at least go
into it with our eyes wide open, rather than tip-toe into
such an arrangement blinded by the inaqpiable necessi¬
ty of more jobs and housing.

Carl Morfeld
San Francisco

Farewells

★ Being in the processing of manifesting a childhood
fantasy, to wit; moving to Hawaii to try on living there,
I would like to take this opportunity to personally and
publicly express my appreciation to those of your adver¬
tisers who have aided me immeasurably during this
transitory phase of my movie.

First among these is the Casa Loma Hotel at Fillmore
and Fell Streets where I have enjoyed temporary lodg¬
ing, aided by a responsible and courteous staff and plea¬
sant surroundings and facilities. However, for the prices
charged, phones in the room would be appreciated by
those Gay men who visit S.F. on both business and
pleasure.

Next are Mail Central, 1800 Market St. and Gemini
Movers for their highly personalized and reasonably
priced services.

I should also like to give a great thanks to Taylor of
San Francisco for piercing my cock; a truly conscious
raising experience.

I would like to expend a little more printer’s ink in
reply to Kitty and Bette, Letter B.A.R. April 7, 1983.
Thank you for bringing attention to my ad. I am sorry,
however, that your lives are so empty you can become
upset with my innocuous little ad. It is important to
note that I wasn’t called on the blatant sexism of the
ad, nor were they replying to any suggestiveness of sex¬
ual oppression and what being “hot” has to do with
being able to build a house. No, the ad was criticized
for using the term “audition” rather than interview or
some other term. William Shakespeare had some in¬
teresting words to say about the play that is life, the stage
and the players. You, and others like you with your petty
personalized bullshit politics are one of the greatest
obstacles the Gay community has to overcome. We can
either participate in the Gay movement as a passive or
at best a reactive audience, whether in the balcony, the
mezzanine or front row center, or we can, each of us,
move ourselves and our lives to center stage and start
writing, producing, directing, and starring in our own
movie. Please, you demean yourself, me, the qualified
and unqualified men looking for work who responded

to the ad; and you demean the whole “Gay movement”
you prattle about.

I would say to you Kitty and to you Bette; it is easy
to be queer in San Francisco. Go be queer in Alabama,
or some other province and then come at me.

William Cox
San Francisco

White’s Place

★ An article appearing in today’s (Wed., Apr. 13)
Chronicle , by-lined by the consistently provocative War¬
ren Hinkle, details Dan White’s incarceration, and the
arrogant attitude of this contemptible and despicable
man who just well may be returned to freedom early
in 1984.

Given the quotes attributed to this pathological
psychopath, as well as his preferential treatment — as
outlined by Hinkle, and confirmed by a female cor¬
respondent who offered documentation — it appears
that killer White deserves less compassion than a rat¬
tlesnake. The latter not only gives warning, but is rapid¬
ly dispatched, as ought to have been the case with Dan¬
ny Boy.

No person of human decency, irrespective of his
politics or personal persuasions (sexual or otherwise)
ought not do all within his legal, or persuasive, power
to assure than Dan White remains entombed, either
literally or figuratively, for eternity.

Thomas M. Edwards
San Francisco

Tour Bus Critic 2nd Licks

★ To Will Courtenay and to others who have wonder
what I meant by “extremes” and “flaws” in the guest
column about tour buses going through the Castro with
tourists taking pictures from the B.A.R. issue dated
April 7.

I admit I was too general with that classification.

Our extremes and flaws are the ones you find passed
out along the street. The ones who make the 18th &
Castro St. bus stop their personal toilet.

And how about the ones who think they’re in bed
on the streets all but sucking and screwing.

I ask is this being homophobic noticing these extreme
flaws and viewing them as wrong?

I think it’s having respect for myself. I'm not trying
to push my mores on anyone but when the tour buses
come through here and we re pointed out for what our
personal lives are, the people on these tour buses are
going to see these things and judge everyone as they see
a few.

It’s a shame the tourists don’t take pictures of their
own problems under their noses in their home areas.
I never once advocated in the article or now changing
anything about this neighborhood. I couldn’t do it or
get away with doing it. But I’m all for changing being
made to feel like “some animal loose in my own environ¬
ment" with caravans of people (tourists) passing
through.

I'm a person first. Gay second.

Tom Basch
San Francisco

P.S. I’d be interested in hearing from anyone who
wants to help with a petition to stop these insults of
tour buses going through the Castro and/or not
stopping. I can be found in the phone book under
Basch.

Ambulance or Taxi?

★ Why didn’t they just take a cab in the beginning?

This is in regard to your “Ambulance Driver Refuses
Gay Passenger.”

I can understand how the two young lovers must feel
about being refused transportation to the hospital by
the driver. But I do not feel that good judgment was
used by the lovers on the emergency situation of an at¬
tack of acute appendicitis.

First of all, Eric’s own doctor told him on the phone,
as you said in your article, “Urged him to get there im¬
mediately.” This does not mean to spend an hour and
a half to get hold of some sort of ambulance service,
plus wait for a pick-up. What they should have done
is to have locked up their place of business, had some¬
one drive them, or just taken a cab. An acute appen¬
dicitis is nothing to wait around for. If they had taken
the doctor’s advice, there would not have been the ap¬
pendix burst, and the loss of his business.

K.N.

San Francisco

Rather than sample
any more stool . . .
Get your stool sampled.
Fight Parasites!

BAY AREA REPORTER APRIL 21, 1983 PAGE 8

LETTERS

Nuns and Afros

★ Regarding the Editor’s note, March 31 issue, SPI's
& Blacks, “Who in the Black movement would you
compare to the Gay clowns for Christ? I remember no
Black activists dressing up in loincloths, war paint. .
as a matter of fact I do remember such things. What
about, after the movement had been long underway,
the growing emphasis in the 60’s on African heritage,
and all it’s associated “drag”: dashikis, adopting
African names (eg. Kareem Jabaar, Muhamed Ali), and
those oh-so-offensive afros? I remember my father
freaking-out the first time he saw an afro. Most “negro”
folk were in the beautician’s chair “straightening their
hair and trying to look as acceptable as the white cop ^
on their beat. And today, a co-worker was fired for many ’
reasons, not the least of which was wearing a small ring
in her nose one too many times for my Black west in-
dian employer. The co-worker is also Black. Wasn’t the
Gay liberation movement predicated on acceptance of
diversity? The rainbow? Or, has it come down to ac¬
ceptance of sex? Which is it?

Chris Williams
San Francisco

ED. NOTE: If my analogy were faulty, your’s is
faultier by far. The comparison of Afros to mock
whimples is not an accurate one.

Those Who Help

★ I want to express publicly my gratitude to Bobbie
Wilson and Gay ling Gee at the AIDS/KS clinic at San
Francisco General Hospital. I was recently alarmed to
discover a suspicious lesion that fit certain
characteristics of KS. When I phoned the clinic, I spoke
with Bobbie and was immediately struck by her
warmth, concern, and discretion. She went out of her
way to help me as though I were a personal friend. I
have never met her, but I know that she must be an
extraordinary person.

Gayling made the visit to the clinic bearable. She
combined professional expertise with humanity so that
I felt confidence and reassurance. We are very lucky
to have such people to go to.

The verdict is still out on me, but if worse comes to
worst, at least there is much good at San Francisco
General.

(Name Withheld)

A Holy Face

★ A true miracle happened this morning in my studio
apartment on Jefferson St. and I want to tell the world!

Having pulled my Thomas’ English muffins out of
the oven and just before spreading maigarine (safflower)
on them I noticed something that gave me a fright.
There, among the nooks and crannys on one of the muf¬
fin halves was the face of Jesus! Could it be true? When
I touched it in awe, there was a warmth to my fingers
that was indescribable. Truly this was a sign.

Oh sinners, heed this letter. Jesus is coming! First
a shroud, then a tree, next a hospital door, and now
an English muffin. What next? What does it take?
Come over to his side. Stop your demented habits, re¬
pent your sins and come to His church now. Be saved.
This is the only way to salvation. Oh, and by the way,
bring lots of money. The poor need not apply.

JC Cox
San Francisco

Following Through

★ Regretfully, this is the third letter-to-the-editor in
recent weeks requesting information so far not found
in either of the major San Francisco dailies or the Bay
Area Reporter.

In the quite long account in the 7 April issue about
the ‘nice boys’ who attacked Russell Mills, teachers,
coaches and others were reported as testifying in defense
of those ‘nice boys.’ What the press should be seeking
and reporting has to do with what such persons and
the school they presumably serve are doing to prevent
recurrences of antisocial behavior among their students.

The questions are posed again: Were those involved
boys suspended from attendance or expelled? If not,
why not? Has the school administration issued
statements of regret for the antisocial activities of its
students? If not, why not? Has the school announced
policies and disciplinary rules to prevent recurrences
of such antisocial behavior? If not, why not? Have steps
been taken to inculcate more human, even if not
characterized as Christian, behavioral attitudes to deter
hoodlum behavior? If not, why not? The school and
its administration should expect the public to believe
that it either supports or ignores such antisocial activity
unless unequivocable favorable answers are publicly
issued.

It is also the duty of the press to seek and publicize
those answers or, sadly, their absence. Won’t the Bay
Area Reporter please do that?

Fred R. Methered
Honolulu, Hawaii

ED. NOTE: We don't see the pursuit of these goals
the responsibility of the press. We see it as the work
of activists. However since the participants were
juveniles, anonymity is preserved. Their identites, their
past is protected. Has not justice been served to date?

P. Lorch

Last Ditch Plea

★ By the time you
read this, the April
1 26th recall vote will
I be less than two
I weeks away. And no
I matter what the
f Alice B. Toklas
I Club, the Bay Area
I Reporter, the super-
I rich “A-Gays” led by
■ Billy Gaylord, and
others who plead
and argue against
the recall, I am go-

= ’* *■ ing to vote YES.

No amount of arguing against the recall can erase
the fact that in the five years Mayor Feinstein has been
in office:

• She has vetoed legislation to plug vacancy decon¬
trol, resulting in continued unjust evictions of tenants,
especially in the Tenderloin;

• She has vetoed the ban on condominium conver¬
sions (fortunately overridden by the Board of Super¬
visors) that further exacerbates the already critical short¬
age of affordable rental housing;

• knuckled under to downtown interests — many
of whom hail from the East Coast — in dropping
Downtown transit tax, high-rise limits and unchecked
expansion of the Financial District into North Beach
and Chinatown, turning S.F. into New York City West;

• opposed equal pay for comparable work;

• reneged on the consent decree to end a discrimi¬
nation suit against the City’s hiring and promotional
policy in the PD;

• insisted despite overwhelming evidence to the con¬
trary that gays are not assaulted on the streets of San
Francisco solely because they are gay (You will never
convince me on that, Madame Mayor: I was “fag-
bashed” eight months ago);

• refused to crack down on police brutality against
gays, Latinos, Blacks and Asians, replacing
homophobic Mission Station chief Don Taylor only
after the recall drive gained momentum. But there is
still Northern Station, for openers, and there is still
Chief Murphy;

• refused to do anything about the plight of the-
City’shomeless until faced with the threat of legal ac¬
tion, as Feinstein’s counterpart in New York, Ed Koch,
was hit with — and lost — and cutting funds on May

• vetoed the Domestic Partners Bill — which ac¬
celerated the recall campaign to begin with — and was
the final straw to Feinstein’s lack of sensitivity to the
Lesbian/Gay community.

Dianne Feinstein owes her 1979 election to gay votes.
And it will be gay votes that will determine whether
or not she stays in office — and she knows it.

Dion B. Sanders
San Francisco

ED. NOTE: We would agree Gay votes will be a

deciding factor.

P. Lorch

Beneath the Waves

★ Last month I ended my year off from “politics” by
attending the Alice B. Toklas debate on the recall. It
was quite a lively show.

Fundamentally we were presented with three basic
aiguments: the ideological, the emotional, and the
pragmatic. As a greying curmudgeon, I am growing deaf
to ideological arguments of any coloration. Somehow
one’s belief system is of much lesser importance than
one’s actions. When you find yourself tending the
wounded at a riot or laughing at a hysterical wisecrack
at one of those dreadful smoke-filled-room meetings the
right or left wingishness of your companions becomes
secondary.

Now the emotional arguments are at times compell¬
ing — so and so stands up and spews out a litany of woe
and blame, then the next speaker stands up to speak
and give a lively challenging rebuttal, next we hear a
truly inspiring personal spiel of homilies, sentimental
half-truths and cliches (my specialty in fact). Soon the
crowd begins to sway and the alternating strength and
vigor of the stump speakers, stem-winders, and old
fashioned preachers (using new age rhetoric of course)
sets up pretty waves of bobbing heads and wagging
tongues very much resembling the sea. We all know of
course that although the waves seem to go one way or
the other the individual particles of water only move
up or down and go nowhere because of the waves.

Finally, in this aqueous vein we can see that what
is really moving things about are the submerged and
potent currents that travel beneath the choppy surface.
These forces are what really count and the reality of
this recall madness became apparent.

Those who moved to oust Feinstein were a squalid
fringe of malcontents. As their campaign very surpris¬
ingly succeeded in gathering signatures enough to ac¬
tually hold an election, a bunch of opportunists and
a smattering of highly principled loners stepped out to
join the mud fight.

These wave-makers failed miserably to take stock of
what the gut instincts in this town are: self-preservation,
self-expression, tolerance, bonhomie, and a unique in¬
souciance in carrying out the practical business of life.

I was gratified that Alice voted to oppose the recall
and I’m glad the community is repudiating the recall.
I’m voting no and I urge everyone to do so.

Carl McMillin
San Francisco

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NGRA /Dunlap Team Up

Back to Court Again on
the Hill Case

by Michael Benzry

I^ast week in the United States INinth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, two important
cases concerning the Immigration and Naturalization Service were heard. Both cases arose from
visitors from outside the United States coming to San Francisco to participate in the Gay Freedom
Day Parade festivities. The cases revolve around the INS laws as mandated by Congress which pre¬
vent homosexuals from entering the United States. The defenders in the two cases used two dif¬
ferent legal arguments against the law.

The law states that anyone
suspected of being a homosexual
(which the immigration form
calls a “psychopathic person¬
ality’) can be denied entrance to
the United States if a doctor
from the Public Health Service
examines the person, finds that
the person is a homosexual (and
thus a pathological personality),
and issues a Class A certificate.
The examination usually con¬
sists of an interview. The prob¬
lem is that the medical profes¬
sion in the United States, as
represented by the American
Medical Association, no longer
recognizes homosexuality as a
pathological personality dis¬
order. Public Health Service
doctors will not issue a finding
for a disease that does not exist.
But the law stands as it was
originally written.

The two cases were presented
by Leonard Graff of the National
Gay Rights Advocates, repre¬
senting Carl Hill, and by Mary
Dunlap, representing the Les¬
bian/Gay Freedom Day Com¬
mittee. The Committees argu¬
ment is based on the Constitu¬
tional First Amendment right of
free association. The Courts
have held that Congress does
have the right to limit association
with certain impermissible
aliens. The argmpfent against the
law is that Congress is attempt¬
ing to exclude a group as imper¬
missible that does not medical¬
ly exist. NGRA4 Graff said that
this argument, is an ambitious
undertaking, as the prior deci¬
sion of the lower court will be
difficult to overcome. He said
that Dunlap made “a very good
argument./ She’s a powerful
speaker.”

The Hill case arises from the
Londoner’s attempt to enter the
country in 1979 for the parade.
Graff’s argument is one of strict
statutory construction. The law
states t hat a homosexual can be

denied entry to the country upon
the issuance of a Class A certifi¬
cate by a doctor of the Public
Health Service. As the PHS will
no longer do this, there is no
legal means to deny Gays entry
to the United States. The govern¬
ment argues that a Gay can be
denied entry if they admit to be¬
ing Gay, or if there is strong evi¬
dence such as wearing a “Gay
Pride” pin. Graff ’s argument is
that an immigration officer is
not legally competent to make
such a determination, according
to the way the law is written. A
person may be Gay in actual
fact, but for immigration pur¬
poses, they are legally Gay only
if so certified by the PHS. It is
the same, says Graff, in any legal
proceeding. “If eleven people
witness a murder, the murderer
is not a murderer in law until it
goes through the courts. A com¬
pany can be obviously bankrupt,
but legally they are not until they
go through the proper legal
channels. Not until then is it a
legal fact.”

Graff thought it was signifi¬
cant that the NGRA was asked
to give oral arguments as amicus
curiae , “friend of the court.”
Usually only the written argu¬
ments are presented to the
courts. When oral arguments are
also requested, it is because the
judges believe the “friend” has
valuable expertise in the legal
area in question. They want
them to be present to clarify
questions that arise from the
written briefs. “We [the Gay
movement] have come of age and
the Court wants our input,” said
Graff. They are giving serious
consideration to the Gay issues.
By asking for oral arguments,
the judges imply that the issue is
being raised frequently in “a very
sound and persuasive manner.
The court is saying, ‘This is a
new area of law; we need help to
come to a sound decision. Here

is a group that has worked on
this issue for years. We need their
input.”’

“I think it went well judging
by the questions the three-judge
panel asked,” said Graff. “The
judges were very well prepared.
The questions they gave to the
government attorneys gave them
a hard time. The judges seemed
to lean to our point of view.”
Graff felt this as much from the
questions the judges asked as the
tone of their voices. At one point,
a judge commented that one of
his children could have given as
good an answer as the govern¬
ment attorney had given. The
judge said he expected more
than that. The attorneys for the
government talked themselves
into corners. The government in¬
sisted that when Congress used
the words “sexual deviant” in
the law, they absolutely were in¬
cluding homosexuals. The
judges did not see this as obvi¬
ous. If Congress had that intent,
they would have mentioned
homosexuals specifically. The
government attorneys said the
term was used as a medical term
of art, a specific diagnosis. At
the time the law was written,
homosexuality was considered
sexual deviance by the medical
profession. It was noted that if
the government used that line of
thought, then the law no longer
applied to homosexuals. At this
time, homosexuality is no longer
considered to be sexually
deviant.

It could be two to four months
before a decision is handed
down. Graff said you can never
predict a verdict. The case came
out of the United States North¬
ern California District Federal
Courts which ruled in favor of
Hill. If the judges uphold the
ruling, the INS could drop the
case, or take it to the Supreme
Court of the United States.

(Continued from page 1)

Union Shop Dispute

NY Deli Bucks Workers

one waiter. “Once, when a cus¬
tomer called in a take-out order
and never picked it up, the owner
accused us of trying to steal it
and called the police.” Con¬
cludes another, “It’s been liter¬
ally hell to work there over the
last nine months.”

Consequently, early this year
several of the employees began to
promote the idea of union repre¬
sentation, and Local 2 of the
Hotel and Restaurant Employ¬
ees Union was called in. Soon,
over 80% of the workers had
signed union authorization
cards, and in mid-March they
presented Yu with a letter stating
their desire to be represented by
the union. Yu replied that he did
not want to meet with them
without his lawyer and set up a
meeting for the following Thurs¬
day, March 17. However, on
Thursday he didn’t show, and he
later refused to submit to a card
check, a standard but voluntary
procedure on the part of man¬
agement.

As a result. Deli employees
decided to picket the weekend of
March 26. They opted not to
strike — they continued to work
their scheduled shifts — but
whoever wasn’t working or who¬
ever got off work joined the
picket line. “Originally we were
just going to do it for a week¬
end,” says West, “to show the
kind of community support we
had. We didn’t want to stop the
business. But every time we
picketed, he closed for the day.
He refused to talk with us.” The
employees picketed seven times.
Finally, the situation deteriorat¬
ed so badly that Yu closed his

This is the second time this
year that the NGRA has been
asked to give oral arguments. At
the end of March in the Fifth
Circuit Court of Appeals in New
Orleans it was asked to argue in
the Longstaff case. Longstaff
moved to the United States in the
mid-60’s. In his naturalization
proceedings he was asked if he
was married, did he have a girl¬
friend, etc., and he admitted to
being Gay. The government said
he entered the country illegally.
He should have known the law
and have declared himself to be
a pathological personality, even
though the issue was never
brought up directly. The case
has been in the courts for four
years. B

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doors for good, and the change
of management/ownership signs
appeared.

According to Gary Guthman
of Local 2, who is representing
the out-of-work employees, the
National Labor Relations Act
prohibits the firing or demoting
of an employee because of union¬
organizing activities. However,
when a restaurant fires all its
employees, closes its doors, and
changes ownership, it is hard to
enforce that law. “Legally, it’s a
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year, they never got their jobs
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changed ownership. “We sus¬
pect, however, that Mr. Yu has
not really sold the place,” con¬
tinues Guthman, who believes
that the ownership change may
be merely an attempt at title-
juggling.

In any case, the Deli employ¬
ees vow to continue their strug¬
gle. With or without a place to
work, they have filed for union
election through the National
Labor Relations Board, and
eight employees have filed com¬
plaints with the Board. They
also plan to continue picketing,
no matter who opens the New
York City Deli doors. “Those
people have a right to those
jobs,” says Guthman. “And the
union plans to claim its rights to
represent those employees no
matter who they are.” Adds one
employee, “Nobody is going to
make any money at that restau¬
rant as long as we picket.” They
plan to picket Jim’s Liquors at
7th and Mission as well, another
store that Yu owns, and they
have even considered picketing
his home in Hillsborough. “I
don’t want to harass the guy,”
notes one worker, “but I do want
my job back.” Others note that
Yu continues to harass them,
though, as he is contesting their
claims for unemployment com¬
pensation, saying they were con¬
ducting a full strike when they
were not.

The workers, most of whom
are Gay, have garnered the sup¬
port of the Lesbian/Gay Labor
Alliance and other sympathetic
groups. They have been encour¬
aged as well by the example of
the employees of Little Italy at
24th and Castro, who, after
picketing for only four days,
forced their employer to recog¬
nize the union, to re-hire laid-off
workers, and to begin contract
negotiations.

Yu was not available for
comment. B

M. Hippier

San Diegans

Four San Diegans were re¬
cently honored for their support
of Tijuana’s Lesbian and Gay
community. FIGHT, Tijuana’s
only Gay movement organiza¬
tion named two health advisors
with the S.D. Dept, of Public
Health for encouraging the
publication of educational pam¬
phlets on sexually transmitted
diseases in Spanish. Also cited
were Pat Burke, the managing
editor of Southern California
Update, and Fred Scholl, one of
its staff reporters, for covering
news that affects the estimated
100,000 Gays and Lesbians in
Tijuana. B

BAY AREA REPORTER APRIL 21. 1983 PAGE 10

PD’s vs. DA’s Charge

lip CRIR

by Margaret Frost

“Our criminal justice system
Attorney Tom Horn gave this
explanation, and other panel
members illustrated it beautiful¬
ly, at this week’s meeting of Con¬
cerned Republicans for Indivi¬
dual Rights.

is basically an adversary system. “

Fireworks erupted when Car-
boni questioned the PD’s office’s
handling of a case currently in the
courts. The facts of the case
resemble the Sonoma murder in

(1. to r.) Tom Horn, Jeff Brown, CRIR Moderator, John Carboni, Judge Phil
Moscone at CRIR’s Monday night debate. (Photo: Kink)

Horn, Public Defender Jeff
Brown, Municipal Judge Philip
Moscone, and John Carboni of
the District Attorney’s office
were present to discuss the
notorious murder acquittal
which came down in Sonoma
County recently. In that case, a
self-confessed murderer of a Gay
businessman pleaded not guilty
on the grounds that the victim
had made a sexual advance to
him.

All of the panelists agreed that
the verdict was a miscarriage of
justice, but the consensus stop¬
ped there. The lawyers contra¬
dicted and challenged each other
with the zeal of Perry Mason
dissecting Hamilton Berger.

Horn, a long-time civil rights
attorney, and Brown presented
the defense position, which Horn
pointed out is to “present the
defendant’s story. ’ ’ They felt that
the blame for the Sonoma case
rested on the prosecutor. “That is
not an admissible defense, ” Horn
stressed. “If the jury bought it,
it’s the prosecutor’s fault for not
challenging it.”

“The defense attorney’s role is
not to make his client subservient
to some greater truth,” Brown
stressed. “No matter how un¬
pleasant, how dispicable, how
ungracious the accused is, he has
a right to the best defense
possible.”

Carboni agressively defended
the prosecutor’s position. Agree¬
ing that the so-called “outrage”
defense was not legal, he added,
“unforturnately there is enough
slack in the legal system to allow
the Public Defender to use it.
This defense is nothing more
than a red herring. It was a
thoroughly outrageous appeal to
the bias of the jury.

“The best way to combat this
kind of error is with an enlighten¬
ed and intelligent jury. ”

Moscone, who noted that he
felt like he was caught in the
crossfire, questioned the role of
the judge in the case. “The judge
reads instructions to the jury
regarding acceptable defenses, ”
he pointed out. “Then the jury
must separate the wheat from the
chaff. It is clear that our law does
not allow for this defense. ”

that the assailant confessed to
killing a Gay man after he made
an advance. Reportedly he even
boasted of the killing in court.
Deputy Public Defenser Peter
Keane is seeking a change of
venue for the trial.

Carboni displayed a bound
report which he said was a
telephone survey conducted by
Brown’s office. The report
sought to establish that the defen¬
dant could not get a fair trial in
San Francisco.

“Why did the Public Defend¬
er’s office spend $20,000 to en¬
sure that no straight person ac¬
cused of assaulting a Gay person
could ever be tried in San Fran¬
cisco? ” Carboni asked.

Brown objected, “this is a par¬
ticularly sensitive case, where
there is a possibility of the death
penalty. Mr. Keane had a res¬
ponsibility to examine the ques¬
tion of whether his client could
get a fair trial here. I cannot
discuss the strategy and tactics of
a pending case, and I am surpris¬
ed at Mr. Carboni for bringing it
up.” What was not brought up
either is that the now infamous
report amply demonstrates that
chances are one can get a fair trial
in San Francisco in a Gay related
cawse. Keane has been criticized
for using the report improperly,
suggesting it says other than it
does.

The Public Defender went on,
“Our office finds it a great advan¬
tage to have a Gay and Lesbian
presence on juries. However, I
have seen prosecutors both under
the incumbent DA and previous
DA’s knock off jurors because
they suspect they are Gay. ”

Looking out at the CRIR
members and guests composed
predominantly if Gay white pro¬
fessional men, Carboni observ¬
ed, “I’d love to have a member of
this audience on my jury
anytime.”

Aside from speculation, the
panel could offer no suggestions
to ensure that the Sonoma error
would not be repeated. “The
problem is not in the system,”
Horn opined. “It is when a mem¬
ber of the system fails to play his
role properly.” ■

M. Frost

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National Council Still Holding Off
Metropolitan Community Church

Dispute continues on whether
to admit the primarily Gay Uni¬
versal Fellowship of Metropoli¬
tan Community Churches to the
National Council of Churches
(NCC), the country’s largest
ecumenical agency.

The council is composed of 32
Christian denominations and 40
million members. Although its
260-member governing board
has already ruled that the
30,000-member Metropolitan
Church meets NCC eligibility
requirements, retrograde theo¬
logical positions may deny the
Gay church’s application for ad¬
mittance. This suspicion owes to
the Presbyterian practice that
welcomes Gays into the church
but refuses to ordain them as
ministers.

“My understanding of our
Church doctrine is that they (the
Metropolitan Church) shouldn’t
be admitted,” said Isaac Faulk
of Berkeley, who is a lay mem¬
ber of the NCC governing
board. He told Examiner
reporters last week that “our
position as a church is that we
believe this (homosexuality) is
not the will and the way of God.”

Rev. Scott Anderson of Sacra¬
mento, also a member of the gov¬
erning board, concurred. “Pub¬
licly,” he said, “our denomina¬
tion views it (homosexuality) as
a sin and a breach from God.”
He mentioned, however, that his
own views differ, and he pointed
to the hypocrisy of welcoming
Gay people into the church but
denying them office within it.

Rev. Michael England, who
heads the Metropolitan Com-

munity Church of San Fran¬
cisco, explained why it is impor¬
tant for his denomination to join
NCC.

“It is important that the
Christian churches understand
us and come to accept us so Les¬
bians and Gay men in their own
denominations will no longer be
oppressed,” England said. “Gay
people tend to be very wounded
by their church background and
aren’t involved in churches at all.
Rejecting this application will be
seen as just another rejection by
the church.”

To the NCC members who
argue homosexuality is a theo¬
logical issue, England has re¬
fused to demur. These argu¬
ments he called “a crock.”

“They are masking the real
issue by talking about theology
and ecclesiology (the science of
church structure and adminis¬
tration). Our theology is more
like (that of) the majority of their
members than a number of other
members,” he said. “The real
problem is that we’re homo¬
sexual, and it’s an issue they
aren’t comfortable dealing
with.”

The admittance of the
Metropolitan Community
Church to NCC will be consid¬
ered when the Council meets
here from May 11-13. The vote,
however, will probably be post¬
poned until the governing
board’s meeting in November.
Two-thirds of the members must
approve for the Metropolitan
Community Church to be ac¬
cepted into the NCC fold. M

Mice Competes with Oscar

by Margaret Frost

AIDS research, discrimination and the recall topped a full
agenda addressed by a sparse crowd at the Alice B. Toklas
Memorial Democratic Club meeting last week.

With hard-core Hollywood
enthusiasts staying home for the
Oscar rites, only 88 ballots were
cast on a motion to rescind the
club’s “no on recall” position,
taken at the previous month’s
meeting. At that time, a total of
222 votes were cast, breaking
down into 73 yes, 137 no and 12
no position.

This time out, after a lengthy
and sometimes confused discus¬
sion on parliamentary pro¬
cedure, the rescinsion lost 7-80,
with one abstention.

On a recommendation from
the Issues Committee, the club
joined with Black and White
Men Together to form an ad-hoc
committee on racism. Establish¬
ed in response to BWMT’s re¬
port on employment discrimina¬
tion by Gay bars, the committee
will “work with bar patrons,
employees, owners and organi¬
zations so as to bring about
change in this pattern of employ¬
ment discrimination.” ■

Lesbian/Gaj Physicians
Host Health Fair

Bay Area Physicians for Hu¬
man Rights, an organization of
Lesbian and Gay physicians, will
be coordinating a health fair in
conjunction with Health Center
ti\. The fair will be held on April
23 and 24 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00
p.m. in the Castro District of
San Francisco. Physicians, podi¬
atrists, dentists, and other health
care professionals will donate
their time providing free screen¬
ing and health testing to persons
15 years and older.

On the day of the fair, first
stop is Sanchez School, 325 San¬
chez Street for registration. After
registration, most of the screen¬
ing will then be at Health Center
#1, right up the street from the
school.

Special attention will be given
to Lesbian and Gay health con¬
cerns. Breast and complete
pelvic examinations including
Pap smears will be provided by
women physicians. Screening for

sexually transmitted diseases
and an audiovisual presentation
on AIDS (Acquired Immune
Deficiency Syndrome) will also
be included. Several free tests
will be of interest to everyone.
These include screening for
blood pressure, vision/glaucoma
testing, dental problems, foot
disorders, mental health services
and blood testing. An optional
chemistry panel costing $8 will
screen for anemia, diabetes, kid¬
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and increased cholesterol. Peo¬
ple who plan on having the
chemistry panel should refrain
from food and alcohol for at least
five hours before the test. Physi¬
cians will review these tests and
referrals will be made for follow¬
up health care if necessary. Vol¬
unteers (including people who
are not health care professionals)
are needed to properly service
the expected 1,000 participants.
For further information about

Recall Countdown

(Continued from page 1)

mayor had told this reporter that
her campaign poll indicated that
“I am not anathema (intensely
disliked) in the Gay com¬
munity.”

The original Gay anger over
the veto of domestic partners
legislation subsided somewhat
when the mayor expressed a will¬
ingness to appoint a task force to
develop new legislation. In sev¬
eral- interviews, Feinstein has
stressed that the legislation in¬
troduced by Supervisor Harry
Britt was “poorly written.” She
expressed opposition to a City
Hall registration of “partners.”
The mayor emphasized that she
will seek a way to broaden city
health benefits to live-in unmar¬
ried partners.

DEMOCRATS DIVIDED

The Harvey Milk and Stone¬
wall Gay Democratic Clubs led
the way in the opposition cam¬
paign in the Gay community.
They claimed that the mayor
had not made enough Gay ap¬
pointments in ratio to the large
Gay population, that she vetoed
the domestic partners legisla¬
tion, and refused to recognize
police violence against Gay peo¬
ple. Unlike the pro-Feinstein
forces, many of those Gay peo¬
ple supporting the recall did so
on a variety of other issues —
high rise buildings, rent control,
unemployment, Muni fares, and
the mayor’s financial support
from corporations.

The Alice B. Toklas club
(with peripheral help from Con¬
cerned Republicans for Indi¬
vidual Rights) led the Gay cam¬
paign against the recall. Toklas
distributed a 12-page tabloid
that supported the mayor to
40,000 people. The basic argu¬
ments centered on the mayor’s 14
years of support for the Gay
community and her release of
funds for Lesbian/Gay projects.
An emphasis was made on the
need for the Gay community to
continue negotiating with the
mayor and keeping the lines of
communication open. Feinstein
supporters expressed hope that
-some accommodation can be
reached with the mayor on the
various domestic partners issues.
The local Gay press supported
the mayor as well — with the
Bay Area Reporter emphatically
rejecting a recall solution within
hours of its promulgation.

GAY POWER

The overall SF Examiner
survey indicates that Feinstein
could win by as much as 75% of
the votes cast. However, the
mayor has said that the release of
the survey might work against
her, as it could cause overconfi¬
dent voters to avoid the polls. As
her ace-in-the-hole the mayor
prepared for any eventuality by
identifying supporters and get¬
ting them to vote by mail. A
possible 70,000 people may cast
absentee ballots.

When the recall vote is history
the Gay community has reaped
one positive gain from the ex¬
perience: The daily press per¬
ceived from the start that it was
the Gay vote and not the White
Panthers that was the big news
story. The result was a message
loud and clear — Gay Power re¬
mains a major consideration in
San Francisco elections. ■

the Health Fair, call (415)
558-9353.

Sponsors of the Health Fair
include: George Riley, M.D.;
Tavern Guild of San Francisco;
Atlas Savings and Loan; North¬
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Human Rights; John Peterman,
Financial Consultant; First In¬
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Arlene Hoffman, D.P.M.,
Ph.D.; Golden Gate Business
Association; and Lenny’s Linen
Closet. Additional sponsors are
welcome to participate in sup¬
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highlight the 7:05 to 9 p.m. seg¬
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Lamble Talk Show on KGO-FM
(FM 104). Jon Herzstam of The
Sexual Minority Youth Program
of the San Francisco Depart¬
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agency attempts to do for Gay
young people who want an alter¬
native to life on the street.

From 9:05 to 10 p.m. Satur¬
day, we look at the vacuum
created in San Francisco politics
by the death of Congressman
Phil Burton. Political analyist
Bruce Pettit of The Pettit Report
forecasts how the race to succeed
Burton may shape up and how
the Lesbian and Gay com¬
munities will fare in the scram¬
ble for power.

Sunday night The David
Lamble Talk Show takes a final
look at the recall campaign for
and against San Francisco
Mayor Dianne Feinstein. The
program will feature a debate on
the recall issues between Dr. Tim
Wolf red. Vice President of the
San Francisco Community Col¬
lege Board and a representative
of the Mayor. Listeners who
watch the CBS Sixty Minutes
segment of the recall (Sunday
between 7 and 8 p.m.) can phone
the Lamble show afterwards to
express their opinions on the
fairness of the CBS report at
928-0104. ■

Bodies for AIDS

A benefit for the East Bay
AIDS and Health Issues Pro¬
gram, sponsored by the Pacific
Center will be held at the 73rd
Ave. Baths, Saturday, April 23,
at 11 p.m. The baths are at 2544
73rd Ave. in Oakland.

The event will feature Peter
Todd, Olympic Gold Medalist in
physique, who with two other
body builders will perform their
routines. Beer will be provided.
Admission at Bath’s prices; $8
room, $6 locker. Half of these
proceeds will comprise the
benefit. Info: 841-6223. ■

Blood Pressure Time

May is National Hyperten¬
sion Month and it’s a perfect
time to have your blood pressure
checked. For information on
high blood pressure or for low-
cost blood pressure screening,
call District Health Center #\ at
558-3905, M-F, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Center is located at 3850 -
17th Street between Noe and
Sanchez.

If you’re a Senior citizen, you
might want to join the Hyperten¬
sion Peer Support Group that
meets every Thursday from 9:30
to 11:30 a.m. There is no charge
and all Seniors are welcome. ■

AIDS Forum

Ken Dunnigan, M.D.,
M.P.H., Director, Public
Health Center II, Department
of Public Health will give a

presentation on AIDS disease at
Westside Community Mental
Health Center, Inc. Central Of¬
fice -1153 Oak Street, San Fran¬
cisco, California 94117 on April
25,1983 at 7:30 p.m. The public
is invited to attend. You may
contact Bill Smith at 431-9000 if
additional information is
needed. ■

Lesbian Mothers
Me the Stage

A number of Lesbian mothers
in the Bay Area are fed up with
their lot and have determined to
go public with their grievances,
which include insufficient child
care, miserable assistance from
social agencies, and unaided
custody battles with their
children’s fathers.

The group claims both the
Gay and women’s movements ig¬
nore that there even are Lesbian
mothers, so it is now launching
a visibility campaign.

The first event designed to
bring the desired attention is a
march on Mother’s Day, May 8,
when Lesbian mothers will join
other women to protest the mili¬
tary budget.

Lesbian mothers, inconjunc¬
tion with another group, Wages
Due Lesbians, are also planning
a Day In The Park. From noon
to 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 14,
at the Elk Glenn Meadow in
Golden Gate Park.

Interested parties may contact
the organization at (415)
558-9628 or write c/o P.O. Box
14512, S.F., CA 94114. ■

BAY AREA REPORTER

APRIL 21, 1983

PAGE 13

UICKIES

Mayor Feinstein consoles Sala Burton — at the memorial service for her
husband. Three days later Burton threw her hat into the ring. (Photo: Rink)

Sala Burton was asked this
week to name what her top
priorities as a U.S. Congress-
woman would be. She respon¬
ded, “Environment, Labor, Gay
Rights.” Later she qualified her¬
self by saying she has “no real
priorities.”

Phil Burton’s widow was
cheered at a press conference in
which she announced her candi¬
dacy for Congress. The overflow
crowd included the leadership of
Gay Democratic Clubs — Tok-
las, Milk and Stonewall. Anne
Kronenberg, former aide to

Harvey Milk, handed out pro-
Sala literature and was soliciting
names for a Lesbian/Gay sup¬
port list for the candidate.

Senator Alan Cranston, him¬
self a candidate for President,
introduced Senator Paul Tson-
gas as “a man who I have work¬
ed with in obtaining AIDS fun¬
ding.” Cranston called Sala “a
fighter for those who have not
had equal opportunity.” When
Sala herself was asked directly if
she would support Gay rights
she replied, “Of course.” ■

Mormons Come Out,
At Last

The first annual San Fran¬
cisco/San Jose Regional Gay &
Lesbian Mormon Conference
and Seminar will be held April
22 and 23. The conference,
sponsored by the San Francisco
and San Jose chapters of Affir¬
mation/Gay & Lesbian Mor¬
mons will have discussions and
groups centered around being
Gay and Mormon.

The event will begin on Friday
evening with a pot luck and get
acquainted social at a private
home in San Leandro. Saturday
morning’s sessons with discus¬
sion groups will be held in a
meeting room at Eden United
Church of Christ on Grove Way
near Mission Blvd. in Hayward.
This will begin at 9 a.m. and
continue until 4:30 p.m.

Anyone in the area who is Gay
or Lesbian and are or have iden¬
tified as Mormon are invited to
attend. For details call 641-0791
evenings. ■

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Lesbian youth will be held
Wednesday, April 27, from 8:30
a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at 101 Grove
Street, room 300.

The workshop is aimed at
those who work with Gay and

Lesbian youth. Representatives
from the city’s Dept, of Public
Health, the Training Committee
of Gay and Lesbian Health, Sex¬
ual Minority Youth, and other
health service organizations will
be conducting the workshop. ■

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Top Priority, at First

Short Term Group
for Gay Men

A new, eight-week group starts
Tuesday evening, April 26, near
the Haight and Castro neighbor¬
hoods. The emphasis will be on
helping members improve their
skills in giving and receiving
support from other Gay men.
Loneliness, self-esteem, and
relationship issues will be ex¬
plored under professional
guidance.

The facilitators, Pedro Rojas,
MA, and Dave Cooperberg,
MA, have been providing on¬
going therapy groups for Gay
men for many years. This short
term group is designed to reach
men who wish to explore getting
closer with others yet are not
ready, willing, or able to make
a longer commitment to do so.
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call Pedro at 841-9198, or Dave
at 431-3220. ■

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by Mike Hippier

I just returned from a weekly visit to my doctor at the U.C. Medical Center Dermatology Clinic, and
he told me that there’s a good reason why my skin looks so bad. “You have pseudomonas, he said,
“a bacterial infection related to staph that’s fairly uncommon, but we re seeing it in more and more
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is enlarged. Obviously, your immune system isn’t working properly. That s why you re coming down with
all these minor infections. But cheer up. You don’t have AIDS.

“Thanks a lot, doc,” I replied.
“Some consolation.”

All my doctor really means
when he says that I don’t have
AIDS is that I don’t have KS or
pneumocistis — yet. But if my
immune system isn’t working
properly, then it’s probably the
next step, unless I am either
careful or lucky — or both. I
can’t allow myself to worry about
that, but I do think about it and
I am prepared for it. My friends
call that pessimistic and
negative. I call it realistic and
sensible.

How did I ever come to such
a state — mot, who was always
such a healthy little boy? The
answer is simple. From my home
in secluded, backwoods Virginia
I moved to L.A. and discovered
the joys of Boys’ Town — West
Hollywood — the first Gay
Ghetto I ever came to know in¬
timately — perhaps too in¬
timately. I moved to L.A. in late
1976. In 1977 the trouble began.
For those of you who discourage
easily, don’t read the next few
paragraphs. For those of you
with stamina, read on.

June 1977 — I came down
with gonorrhea for the first time
in my life, the first of many times
since. A few months later I
discovered what it was like to get
crabs. I hated them. They, un¬
fortunately, were attracted to me,
and like the clap, they returned
periodically over the next few
years. In October 1978, living
now in New York City a block
from Christopher Street, I learn¬
ed what nonspecific urethritis
meant — through personal ex¬
perience, of course. In January
1979 I was treated for venereal
warts — four treatments lasting
two and a half months.

In the summer of 1979 I mov¬
ed to San Francisco, and in
January 1980 I hit the jackpot
— Hepatitis B plus two cases of
internal parasites, ghiardia and
shigella. In July 1980 I had a
hepatitis relapse. This time my
eyes turned yellow and I was in
bed a month. Oh yes, the
shigella returned as well. In Oct¬
ober 1980 I played host to
another parasite, camphylobac-
ter, and in April 1981 the
venereal warts returned.

In September 1981 I discover¬
ed the recurring joys of herpes.
In December 1981 I got amoe-
bas. 1982 was a good year. I on¬
ly suffered from three or four
herpes attacks and the clap
(once), although I do have to
confess to numerous inexplicable
aches and pains, then in
February 1983, thinking there
was little else to catch, I began
this latest series of visits to the
doctor for dermatological prob¬
lems which have this morning
been identified. I’ve already
tried three or four drugs to keep
these infections under control,
but nothing seems to work. To¬
day I begin another.

No wonder my friends call me
Typhoid Mary.

F or years I’ve taken a good
deal of ribbing from friends
who because of my health
record consider me a Disease
Queen — “What has she got
now? ” they ask each other on a
weekly basis — and I have al¬
ways taken it in stride, but when
they try to make me feel guilty

for my troubles, I balk. Respon¬
sible, yes; guilty, never — for
what did I ever do wrong? I
fucked — that’s all — and I’ve
never felt guilty for that.

I admit that at times in my life
I’ve fucked indiscriminately.
Like many others, I ve gone
through my trashy slut phase. In
New York I discovered the An¬
vil and in San Francisco Buena
Vista Park. But even if I had
never visited these places, I
couldn’t have avoided some
degree of promiscuity, and I ful¬
ly believe that I would have been
nearly as susceptible to hepatitis
or warts at the baths, in the bars,
or even at private parties as I was
at the more notorious places.
Besides, I’m not sure that at the
time I was even aware of all the
consequences involved. Five
years ago, who among us had
ever heard of AIDS? At any rate,
the phase didn’t last long, and if
it is any justification (which it is
not) there were thousands who
were (and still are) trashier than
I.

come down with that sort of
thing.

In one way I don’t mind hav¬
ing had so many diseases. At
least, having had them, I learn¬
ed a great deal and now know
what to expect. Ignorance and
fear of a disease is often worse
than the disease itself. I used to
think I would die if I ever got
venereal warts on my asshole, for
God’s sake. Well, I’ve had ’em,
and although they were a royal
pain in the ass, I learned to deal
with them. I’m sure it’s the same
with AIDS. We’re all scared to
death, and although the conse¬
quences are far worse than
anything I’ve yet experienced.
I’m sure that even if I get KS, I’ll
learn to deal with that too.

The worst part about the fear
of disease is the misunderstand¬
ing and the mistrust it engen¬
ders. when people at the gym see
marks on my arms and legs, they
shy away from me like they
would from the sight. Admitted¬
ly, the marks do look alot like
KS bruises, but they aren’t —

"Because of my health, my friends
considered me the 'Disease Queen.'"

— Mike Hippier

Even though I’ve “reformed”
since then — I still suffer from
actions — not “sins” — of the
past. Many of these diseases,
once contracted, never go away.
Even if I never fucked again, I
still might have a herpes out¬
break, for example Consequent¬
ly, when I get sick and my
friends say, “You look horrible.
Why don’t you take care of
yourself, Mike?” as if I am to
blame for being ill, it is doubly
frustrating. “But I do take care
of myself,” I respond. “I haven’t
been to the baths in over a year.
I rarely even trick anymore. I go
to the gym five times a week, I
eat well, I get plenty of sleep,
and I almost never do drugs
anymore. What more do you
want?”

The worst critics are the ones
who never get sick themselves
and are therefore smug to the
point of self-righteousness. I
can’t stand people who fuck
three or four different people a
week and brag about never get¬
ting the clap, as if they were in
any way responsible for their im¬
munity. Some of them may take
especially good care of them¬
selves, but for most it is simply
a matter of chemistry — hardy
genes, or God-knows-what.
They and I could fuck with the
same person, and I’d probably
get sick while they stayed well.
(A friend of mine who is more
like me once told me, “Honey,
whenever I cum I just roll over
and call the doctor, ‘cause I
know I’m gonna come down
with something.”)

There are others who say,
“You’ve got the clap again? But
my dear, who have you been
sleeping with?” Their reaction
always reminds me of my first ex¬
perience with gonorrhea and my
father’s reaction when I told him
about it. I wasn’t at all embar¬
rassed or ashamed, but he was
schocked. As far as he was con¬
cerned, only people who slept
with Mexican prostitutes got the
clap. Decent people just didn’t

and I shudder to think how my
gym friends would react if I did
have KS. A week ago on TV I
saw a part of Ben Hur, the part
about the Valley of the Lepers,
and as Ben Hut’s mother and
sister hobbled around trying to
avoid the stone-throwers, I said,
“Girls! I know just how you
feel.” Now, in order to avoid the
accusatorial glances at the gym,
I wear sweat pants and long-
sleeved T-shirts.

I am fully aware that publiciz¬
ing my health troubles may not
be the wisest thing in the world
for me to do. After all, after
reading this, who in his right
mind will ever want to fuck with
me again? Perhaps subcon¬
sciously, then, I am doing this
partly as a means $f self-preser¬
vation. I may want to scare peo¬
ple away. But I don’t think so.
I think there is a larger purpose
here. I want people to under¬
stand and to sympathize. I want
them to stop blaming me — or
themselves — for something they
have only a limited amount of
control over. Besides, I can do all
the scaring away I need to do on
my own without resorting to
newspaper articles. Just a few
days ago one of my all-time
favorite boyfriends came over
after a year’s absence and
wanted to fuck. “I can’t — or I
shouldn’t,” I said, and then I
showed him my arms. He fled in
terror and I returned to the
typewriter. That was incredibly
frustrating for me, but I’ll do it
again if I have to. If a temporary
abstinence from sex is what is re¬
quired, I’ll do it.

T he most discouraging thing
about disease — about
AIDS in particular — is not
the inconvenience, the discom¬
fort, or even the potentially
disastrous consequences, it’s the
way we seem to be affected by it.
Too often these days I hear Gay
people say that there is not only
something- wrong with our

BAY AREA REPORTER APRIL 21, 1983 PAGE 14

ON THE JOB:
GAYPEOPLE AT WORK

Following Up

ARTHUR LAZERE. C.PA

T he first of this column’s continuing series of profiles of leaders
from the Lesbian and Gay business and professional commu¬
nity appeared in October 1981. The subject was Herb Donald¬
son, an attorney, a successful entrepreneur in the coffee roasting
business, and an activist fighting for Gay rights from way back in
the mid-1960’s.

One of Jerry Brown’s last acts
as Governor of California was to
appoint Herb Donaldson to the
municipal bench in San Fran¬
cisco. Donaldson becomes the
fifth openly Gay or Lesbian per¬
son serving on the bench in Cali¬
fornia (all appointed by Brown
and the only upfront judges we
know of anywhere).

Donaldson’s swearing-in cere¬
monies were held in the imposing
meeting room of the San Fran¬
cisco Board of Supervisors before
a capacity crowd of community
leaders and well-wishers of all
sexual persuasions. In his re¬
marks, Donaldson made clear
his continuing awareness of the
oppression of Gay people, includ¬
ing stories of his own experiences
of harassment and discrimi¬
nation.

★ ★ ★

Late in 19811 wrote about the
beginnings of the National Asso¬
ciation of Business Councils, an
umbrella organization of local
Lesbian and Gay business and
professional groups. NABC has
continued to build its network
throughout the United States.
The newest additions to the ranks
of NABC members are Roches¬
ter Area Professionals (Roches¬
ter, NY) and the Greater Mont¬
rose Business Guild (Houston).
The Business and Professional
Association of Los Angeles will
host this year’s NABC conven¬
tion in November. N AB C can be
contacted at Box 15145, San
Francisco, CA 94115.

★ ★ ★

The first of a continuing series
of columns on the policies of ma¬
jor American corporations and
the experience of Lesbian/Gay
employees at those companies ap¬
peared about a year ago. The sub¬
ject was Bank America Corpora¬
tion, the largest bank in the
world. Among other facts estab¬
lished at that time was that the
BankAmerica Foundation had
never made grants to any Lesbian
or Gay charitable organizations.
Further, the bank was observed to
have only very rarely advertised in
the Gay press.

I spoke recently with Ms.
Katherine Arnerich, a program
officer at the foundation. She
confirmed that the foundation
has granted $25,000 to the Pride

(Continued from previous page)

bodies, there is something wrong
with our souls as well. Such
hogwash is disheartening. These
people are confusing issues of
health with those of morality. It
may not be wise to go to the
baths and fuck a dozen men, but
there’s nothing morally wrong
with it. (And Heaven help those
Gay people who think there is.)
Granted, some lifestyle revision
may be in order here, but we
don’t have to stop being Gay in
order to protect ourselves.

Unfortunately, that is exactly
what some people are doing.
The other day I went to the
hospital to visit a friend with
pneumocistis, and I took him a
copy of Gay Comix #3 to cheer
him up. He didn’t want it,
however, for it reminded him of
the society he blames for his ill¬
ness. Unlike my friend, I’ve
never blamed being Gay for my
own health troubles, even
though those troubles date from

Center in San Francisco. Ms.
Arnerich indicated that the foun¬
dation saw the Pride Center as “a
community effort spearheaded
by the Gay community for both
the Gay community and the
broader community in which the
Center is located.”

Ms. Arnerich also indicated
two ways in which Gay/Lesbian
agencies might get more funding
from the foundation. First, the
bank has a matching gift program
for its employees. With a mini¬
mum gift of $25, an employee
could give to a favorite charity
(educational, cultural, health, or
human service) and the bank will
make a gift in an equal amount.

Secondly, the foundation has a
Community Development Fund
from which grants are made to
community groups through
Bank of America branch man¬
agers. Lesbian/Gay nonprofit
groups might lobby their local
branch managers for such
support.

I also spoke with Mr. Charlie
Stuart, Vice President - Advertis¬
ing at Bank of America. I pointed
out to Mr. Stuart that since the
column a year ago, a series of full-
page ads by the bank have ap¬
peared in The Castro Times , a
Gay-owned newspaper. Had
there been a change in advertising
policy at the bank? Stuart said
that there had been no change of
policy. He said that there had
never been a policy of exclusion of
Gay publications, nor is there a
policy to specifically include Gay
publications.

I did a quick telephone survey
of other Gay newspapers. Pub¬
lisher Bob Ross of the Bay Area
Reporter said that B.A.R. had
never tried to sell advertising to
the bank. Frank Vinci of The Ad¬
vocate told me that they had tried
a number of different ways to sell
ads to Bank of America with neg¬
ative results. John Van Heusden
at The Voice indicated that they,
too, had tried but without suc¬
cess. James Foote of The Sentinel
said they had approached Grey
Advertising, one of the agencies
that handles Bank of America
ads. They were told that the bank
is not advertising in any commu¬
nity press, only in major metro¬
politan dailies. When Foote ask¬
ed if the Castro Times was an ex¬
ception to this policy, he was told

the year I discovered Boys’
Town. As far as AIDS is con¬
cerned, I regard it as I would
have regarded polio or smallpox
years ago, as a matter of health
and nothing more.

We can’t afford to view this as
anything more — as God’s
answer to homosexuality, for in¬
stance. There are too many
others around us who will be
glad to do that for us. ■

M. Hippier

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that Castro Times ’ contract was
expiring shortly and will not be
renewed.

Vice President Stuart said to
me that if any Gay publications
think that they have been dis¬
criminated against, they should
call him directly (622-2711).

★ ★ ★

T he second of the corporate
stories I wrote was about
Miller Brewing Company.
Miller is headquartered in Mil¬
waukee, Wisconsin, the first state
in the union to pass a Gay rights
law. The law was passed early in
1982. As of September 1982, ac¬
cording to a company spokesper¬
son at the time, the corporation’s
attorneys believed that no change
in corporate policy was necessary
to be in compliance with the new
law. Miller’s policies indicate that
the company does not discrimi¬
nate on the basis of race, religion,
etc. Sexual orientation still is not
on the list.

Sometimes organizations
which are closer to the market¬
place have a stronger understand¬
ing of the needs and interests of
those who are out there buying a
company’s product. In San Fran¬
cisco, the independent distribu¬
tor for Millers is a company call¬
ed Golden Brands. Golden
Brands’ public relations person,
Meredith Moore, is well aware of
the importance of Gay dollars to
Miller’s sales. Golden Brands
donated $1,000 to the San Fran¬
cisco Pool Association, a Gay and
Lesbian group, to sponsor a pool
tournament which was called the
SFPA/Miller Lite. Now, the sec¬
ond annual tournament has re¬
ceived $2, OOOfor 1983, according
to Ms. Moore. She also told me
that a request had gone to the
Miller Company itself for a dona¬
tion on the order of ‘ ‘several thou¬
sand dollars” to the 1983 Les¬
bian/Gay Freedom Day Parade.
Millers has reportedly been a co¬
sponsor of a national Gay bowl¬
ing tournament held in Mil¬
waukee.

The beer industry has tradi¬
tionally had an interest in sport¬
ing events. It is nice to know that
Gay/Lesbian organizations are
receiving benefits of such lar¬
gesse. But so long as a company
like Millers refuses to include sex¬
ual orientation in its nondiscrimi¬
nation policies, we must remain
skeptical.

At my request, Ralph N avarro,
president of the Cream City Busi¬
ness Association, Milwaukee’s
Lesbian and Gay business and
professional organization, has
called Millers once again on the
subject of their nondiscrimina¬
tion policies. Finally, a willing¬
ness to discuss the matter has
been indicated. Navarro, along
with several colleagues (an attor¬
ney, a psychiatrist) will be meet¬
ing with Miller personnel people
in the near future. Stay tuned for
further developments. ■

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A support group for ethnic
minority men having drinking
and/or drug related problems is
now being formed. The group
will meet at 18th Street Services
- Pride Foundation, 4130-18th
Street, (between Castro & Coll-
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evenings, 7 - 8:30 p.m.

The overall purpose of the
group is to explore cultural
and/or racial issues common to
men in the process of recovery.
These issues may include multi¬
racial relationships, family
issues, friendships, sex and
others. This group will provide
men with the opportunity to
discuss feelings and thoughts.

For more information and
registration, contact Eduardo
M. Martinez, 18th Street Ser¬
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fees. ■

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In Ogunquit, Maine, a popu¬
lar Gay tourist resort area, a new
ordinance closing the town beach
after 11 p.m. has come under fire.
Critics say the rule is aimed at
Gay tourists who congregate on

Not everyone was fond of Phil
Burton .While sitting at the bar in
the Twin Peaks last Tuesday
night, some creep sent me a note,
via the bartender, that read:
“Phil Burton has died! rah! rah!
rah! ” He then walked up to me,
handing me his business card (‘ ‘to
make sure you spell the name
right”) and dared me to print it.
Who was it that said a jackass was

Famed attorney Melvin Belli and his political activist wife, Lia, at the Burton
funeral. All week Lia, CDC president, has been testing the waters for a possible
House race. (Photo: Rink)

Gary Hart to Make
News in L.A.

Conservative humor? The Na¬
tional Conservative Political Ac¬
tion Committee (NCPAC) re¬
cently sent out a fundraising let¬
ter to help New Hampshire’s
GOP governor erase a $50,000
campaign debt. The letter signed
by N CPAC’s Terry Dolan carried
a postscript saying, “Don’t put
this letter down without sending
in your check for at least $50. I
have personally pledged to expose
anyone who fails to contribute to
this cause as a radical liberal. If
you ever want to see your younger
sister again, you’ll put your check
in the mail today.” Dolan, who
was hosted in S.F. last year by
some of his Gay Republican
friends, says the postscript was
only an attempt to inject some
humor into his many fundraising
letters.

you might have to ask yourself
what God thinks of you.” • A
group of state legislators, led by
Assemblyman Lou Papan, are
quietly trying to build support to
raise their salaries by 20%
($28,110 to $33,750) next year.
Speaker Willie Brown also sup¬
ports the pay-raise plan. • A tell-
all book by Leo Damore about
Chappaquiddick reportedly has
Washington buzzing and Ted
Kennedy’s associates worried. •
Regardless of where the ’84
Democratic National Conven¬
tion is held, California will have
the largest delegation with 460
delegates. • In Hartford, CT,
military recruiters were banned
last week from on-campus job in¬
terviews at the University of Con¬

Mayor Dianne Feinstein plans to celebrate her victory Tuesday night at
Van Ness Avenue headquarters. (Photo: Rink)

the beach at night. • In Minne¬
sota, Gary Joselyn, a former
school board chairman from
Crystal, MN, defended a bill in
the state House to protect Gay
employees’ rights, claiming that
one in ten teachers in the state is
Gay. • The Oregon state Senate
last week defeated by a 17-13 vote
a measure before that body that
would have outlawed discrimina¬
tion against homosexuals in
housing, employment, and pub¬
lic accommodations. • Oakland
Mayor Lionel Wilson causing all
kinds of hell by endorsing City
Councilman Wilson Riles, Jr.’s
opponent, Larry Hansen, in
Oakland’s5thDistrict. Wilson’s
people think Riles will run for
mayor if he is victorious this week.

Famed author Norman Mailer
when asked his views about
homosexuality by University of
Pennsylvania undergraduates re¬
plied, “My feeling is that homo¬
sexuals want to become hetero¬
sexual. . . if you’re homosexual,

necticut Law School because of a
Defense Department policy dis¬
criminating against Gays. • And
in Kalamazoo, Michigan, a min¬
ister and a KKK leader led a
meeting to protest that city’s
library materials on homosexu¬
ality. A neo-Nazi group supplied
“security” for the rally.

San Francisco Tomorrow sup¬
porting the recall effort, saying
they have become “disillusioned”
with Dianne Feinstein.

G overnor George Deukme-
jian, who has opposed state-
run lottery gambling in the
past, now says he’s willing to take
another look at the idea (an idea
that is, in my opinion, long over¬
due). • An article in next month’s
Penthouse magazine on the
Moral Majority’s Jerry Falwell,
accusing the Right-wing dealer of
discriminating against Blacks,
Jews, Catholics, and homosexu¬
als has Falwell upset. Falwell call-
(Continued on next page)

Governor George Deukmejian lik¬
ing state lottery more.

O hio Senator John Glenn
makes it official today —
joining the rest of the pack as
a Demo presidential candidate. •
The Concerned Republicans for
Individual Rights (CRIR) en¬
dorsed the so-called Sebastiani
Plan, a new reapportionment ini¬
tiative that is being readied for the
November election. • Are you
ready for this one? One “ego-
starved drag queen“ (guess who?)
recently sent out a letter in which
he/she claims to be able to “pro¬
vide information that can be used
in astrological research” of
AIDS. One of the three require¬
ments needed to provide this
scientific information is the pa¬
tient’s phone number (phone
number? — is there no end to this
person’s talents?).

Don’t forget the fundraiser/
party for Sheriff Mike Hennessey
at the home of Supervisor and
Mrs. Hongistoon Sunday, May 2
(2-5 p.m., $20,861-6587 for info ).
• Assemblyman Tom Hayden’s
Campaign for Economic
Democracy (CED) suffered a
double blow last week when
Hayden-backed Mayor Ruth
Gold way lost in her re-election at¬
tempt in Santa Monica and con¬
servative and moderate voters
beat back an attempt by CED to
take over the Chico City Council.
• Assembly Speaker Willie
Brown praising Governor Deuk¬
mejian’s first 100 days as gover¬
nor, saying, “Governor Deukme-
jian’s administration has been a
healthy one,” adding, “I’d say on
balance, Deukmejian has com¬
ported himself as well as any gov¬
ernor in the first 100 days and
probably better than many
others; he must have had the
rockiest 10 or 12 days of any
governor that’s ever been
elected.”

WAYNE FRIDAY

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man (a Gay supporter) may well sur¬
face as top state rep.

the $175 per ticket affair to hear
presidential candidate Gary
Hart. Hart promising a major ad¬
dress on Gay rights. • And L. A.’s
new Gay Municipal Court Judge
Jerry Krieger was inducted last
week by Chief Justice Rose Bird.

Lesbian activist author Rita
Mae Brown (Southern Discom¬
fort, Ruby fruit Jungle ) along
with Norman Lear and Co. won
the Variety Award from the L.A.
Writers Guild for the special they
did entitled “I Love Liberty,”
combating the Moral Majority. •
One of the books on Jerry Fal-
well’s list to be placed in the na¬
tion’s libraries, including school
libraries, is one entitled Gay Is
Not Good. • The all-important
L.A. Times came put Sunday
with a ringing endorsement of
AB-1, urging the Assembly and
the state Senate to pass the legis¬
lation.

And major lobbying will go on
in Albany, New York, this week in
an attempt to have the NY
Assembly pass a state Gay rights
bill that was recently reported out
of the Assembly’s Government
Operations Committee on a 10-1
vote. NY Gay leaders think that
the key to passage by the full
Assembly lies with NY’s Gover¬
nor Mario Cuomo. ■

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ed the article “garbage.” • With
the death of Phil Burton, many
Gay leaders now expect L.A.
Congressman Henry Waxman to
carry the load in the fight for

AIDS research monies. Ironical¬
ly, TIME magazine, the day after
Burton’s death, carried a letter to
the editor from Phil Burton de¬
crying the “tragically inade¬
quate” funding of AIDS re¬
search. Burton, in the letter, call¬
ed AIDS “a relentless epidemic
and the most important public
health problem in the U.S.”

N ew York Senator Pat Moyni-
han has introduced a companion
measure to Rep. Henry Wax-
man’s $40 million dollar AIDS
research bill. The Moynihan
measure is being co-sponsored by
NY colleague Senator Alphonse
D’Amato, a Republican, and
California Senators Pete Wilson
and Alan Cranston.

Metropolitan Community
Church has applied for member¬
ship in the National Council of
Churches and the governing
board of the Council will be meet¬
ing May 10-13 in San Francisco to
discuss MCC’s application. •
MECLA is hosting the fundrais¬
er dinner this Saturday night,
April 23, at the L.A. Coliseum
and upwards of 1500 expected at

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POLITICS AND PEOPLE

NO on the Recall

WAYNE FRIDAY

ext Tuesday, voters will be
asked whether or not Mayor
Dianne Feinstein should be
recalled. I ask the readers of this
column to join me in voting NO
next Tuesday.

While Dianne Feinstein has
certainly not given the Gay com¬
munity all that we would like, she
has been supportive of us
throughout her political career
and now deserves our support.
The mayor has a long record,
dating back to 1969, of helping
the Gay community. Dianne
Feinstein in 1969 spoke out for
legislation to give equality to
Gays. In 1971 she introduced a
city jobs equality bill for Gays
that was later adopted by the
Board; in 1978 Feinstein vigor¬
ously supported legislation by
Supervisor Harvey Milk to ex

tend the equality legislation to in¬
clude housing for Gays.

As a supervisor, Dianne Feins¬
tein was the first to appoint a Gay
person as a staff member and that
person now holds an important
top level position in the mayor’s
office. During the No on 6 fight in
1978, Dianne Feinstein debated
State Senator John Briggs oppos¬
ing the Briggs Initiative and in¬
troduced a resolution to the
Board of Supervisors attacking
the anti-Gay measure. Mayor
Feinstein has helped Gays obtain
$375,000 for the neighborhood
Pride Center, helped obtain fun¬
ding for a number of causes im¬
portant to Gays and Lesbians
such as the Gay Senior Citizens
Program, Community United
Against Violence and when fed¬
eral funding stoDDed for the

Human Rights Commission’s
Lesbian/Gay staff member, the
mayor provided the necessary
funding.

Although I have complained to
the mayor on occasion that I felt
the Gay community was deserv¬
ing of more important appoint¬
ments to commissions, there too,
she has delivered as has no other
past mayor. She has appointed 16
Gay persons to city boards and
commissions, including the im¬
portant police commission,
Board of Permit Appeals, the
War Memorial Board, and in fact
appointed a Gay man to replace
the murdered Harvey Milk to the
Board of Supervisors. Other im¬
portant support Dianne Feins¬
tein has given us includes funding
for the Gay Senior Citizens pro¬
gram of Operation Concern, reaf¬
firming her support of bereave¬
ment leave for Gays, and support
of AB-1, the jobs equality bill now
before the State Assembly for
Gays (the mayor has called for
both civic and religious leaders to
support this important legisla¬
tion). On a national level, Mayor
Feinstein has worked openly for
the rights of Gay people. At the
Democratic National Conven¬
tion in 1980, the mayor was the
only elected official to address the
Rules Committee of the Demo
National Committee to urge sup¬
port for a Gay Rights plank in the
Democratic Party platform.

S ome scoff at the monthly
meetings the mayor set up
more than a year ago with
representatives of the Gay com¬
munity, but not I. I have seen the
results of those meetings, and I
am damned glad that she has
pledged to continue them.

Again, a lot more has to be ac¬
complished in San Francisco
before things are as we would like
them — we are entitled to better.
They will come. ■

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BAY AREA REPORTER APRIL 21. 1983 PAGE 17

RELIGION AND US

Tim LaHaye:

A Look at Hatred
and Ignorance

RICK WEATHERLY

W hat can one say about a
“Dr.” who quotes the
National Enquirer to sup¬
port his theses? Probably either
too little or too much, but I will
take a stab at it because I think
it is important to do so.

In our fabled Mecca of S.F.
we are too prone (which is not
to say supine) to forget how deep
is the ignorance of some of our
opponents and how furious is
their hatred. But it should be a
surprise to no one that the two,
ignorance and hatred, are usual¬
ly close companions. It left me
shaken, angry, and finally
amused to read this man’s
thoughts and beliefs regarding
Gay folk. But it was a needed if
painful refresher on just how
awfully dehumanized some anti-
Gay people are. If ever there was
“obscene” (literally: to make in¬
human) writing it is Tim
LaHaye when he speaks about
you and me.

I first remember hearing
LaH aye’s name in connection
with a nasty little pamphlet
which attacked the Metropoli¬
tan Community Churches. It
claimed, among many things,
that we were originally named
“The Church of Sodom.” Our
denominational attorneys got,
under threat of a lawsuit, a re¬
traction of that claim mailed to
everyone who had received the
pamphlet. But my ignorance of
LaHaye makes him far from un¬
known. He is in fact a major fig¬
ure on the radical right among
conservative evangelical Chris¬
tians. He bills himself in addi¬
tion to being a Dr. (of what and
according to whom we are not
told) as a “family counselor.”
No, make that a CHRISTIAN

family counselor.”

His work as displayed in
What Everyone Should Know
About Homosexuality is slip¬
shod, unconnected, and full of
unsupported assertions of the
wildest sort. “A vast majority of
Americans (95 percent) believe
that heterosexuality is normal
and homosexuality is abnor¬
mal.” We are told that England
lost its colonial empire and is
now experiencing a drop in
births because it legalized pri¬
vate consensual adult homo¬
sexual acts in 1957, ten years
earlier than the actual legaliza¬
tion bill. On page 30 he asserts
that 90-95% of the population
is non-Gay and on page 31 that
4-5% of the population is Gay.

Arithmetic as well as history
eludes this Doctor. I could con¬
tinue to cite dozens of other ex¬
amples (p. 113: Jude 7 is cited
as anti-homosexual; p. 120: it
disappears from the list of bible
references which a repentant
homosexual must believe con¬
demn homosexual acts) but why
bore you?

aHaye’s assertions about
the origins of sexual orien¬
tation are as bizarre as his
scholarship is faulty. He rejects
genetic influences, but so do
many. He believes something in
a family constellation produces
a “predisposition” toward same-
sex acts. This is what you and
I would call orientation. Here he
offers a mish-mash of Beiber,
Socarides, and other hardline

Freudians of the “Homosexu¬
ality is arrested development”
school. His writing is innocent
of any mention of contemporary
psychological or sociological re¬
search with the exception of
carefully isolated quotations,
unflattering to Gays, lifted out
of their context in Tripp’s The
Homosexual Matrix. Such pre¬
disposed people are then moti¬
vated into full homosexuality
(they “do it”) by being sexually
molested, exposed to erotic liter¬
ature, masturbation (would I
kid you?), pro-homosexual
media stories, and LaHaye’s
main target of bombast, by
homosexual school teachers who
are always seeking new
“recruits.”

His scientific view of homo¬
sexuality combines with a the¬
ology of like sophistication. God
hates homosexuality, loves the
sinners but will send them all to
Hell if they don’t refrain from
proscribed sexual acts and will
destroy any nation which toler¬
ates Gay people. But all is not
lost! Through a combination of
spiritual repentance and good
old willpower, we can win out
over these perverse urges! But
even his spectacular ignorance
does not allow him to promise a

change in “predisposition;” in¬
stead, he offers his penitents the
curious joy of lifelong celibacy.

His logic flows from these
origins into the realm of politics.
If homosexuality is utterly evil
and if God demands its extermi¬
nation at the peril of national
destruction and if Gay people
can change any old time they get
up the gumption, then absolute¬
ly no toleration can be granted
to Gays. Sodomy laws must not
be repealed and anti-discrimina¬
tion laws must never be passed,
and on and on ... We are the
murderers of little children. We
are naturally rage-filled and
prone to violence. We are re¬
sponsible for as much as 30% of
the violent crime and most of
the suicides. He even has kind

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words for the ancient Semitic
practice of stoning homosexuals
to death. It kept the problem
under control and seems to
LaHaye to be less cruel than the
hoax of acceptance being offered
to Gay people by misguided
straights.

I realize this all may sound
like a caricature of the man’s
ideas. But his extremism ex¬
ceeds any ability on my part to
exaggerate. His perfectly dismal
book actually stoops even to in¬
sult and ridicule, while claiming
to be the product of a religious
person, a counselor and a

scholar. It is replete with ref¬
erences to Gay people as
“homos” and “vile perverts.”
LaHaye only goes to show that
for this “born-again” Christian,
he is just as much a mess the
second time around.

We have opponents and critics
who are compassionate and rea¬
sonable human beings. I can
respect a well-founded and lov¬
ing anti-Gay critique even as I
disagree with it. But LaHaye’s
ideas and their ilk, of which
there are more than a few pro¬
ponents, deserve nothing but
our contempt. ■

GUEST COLUMN

Another Voice on
Church Task Force

by Randy Schell

H omosexuality and Social
Justice , the document of
The Task Force on Gay/
Lesbian Issues of The Commis¬
sion on Social Justice for the
Archdiocese of San Francisco
has set the institutional church
on its ear. This is true for both
the Archdiocese of San Fran¬
cisco and the church interna¬
tional. It is no wonder then that
the Bay Area Reporter and staff
writer George Mendenhall have
devoted so much coverage to this
controversial and visionary
document.

Dr. Kevin Gordon was elected
Chairperson for the Task Force
on Gay/Lesbian Issues by its 14
members. Perhaps no decision
was so critical to the life of the
Task Force than the election of
Kevin as its spokesperson. In his
role as Chairperson, Kevin has
been a source of inspiration to
the Task Force and an articulate
vehicle for the message contain¬
ed within Homosexuality and
Social Justice.

As the press continues its cov¬
erage of this report, it is tempt¬
ing to center one’s coverage on
the spokesperson. Indeed, the
Bay Area Reporter has centered
that coverage on Kevin and at
times has given the impression
that Gordon vs. Monsignor
Armstrong is the issue at hand.
This image is neither correct nor
beneficial to the aims of the Task
Force or the Commission on So¬
cial Justice. The Task Force con¬
sists of 14 extraordinary persons
contributing a myriad of talents
embodied in this report. Kevin’s
role as a theologian is a vital tool
in the overall message of Homo¬
sexuality and Social Justice.
However, we must not lose per¬
spective as to what the message
of this report is. It is first and last
a document about violence. It is
specifically a document about
violence generated against Gay
men and Lesbian women and the
responsibility of the Roman
Catholic Church in answering to
this violence. The report wisely
points to the church and its the¬
ology as a contributor to the
multidimensional violence we
experience in our lives. Kevin’s
gifts as a theologian articulately
portray this reality.

But, what about the other
voices of the Task Force? Some
of its members have experienced
institutional violence from the
church simply because they have
publicly associated themselves
with the Gay community. More
than one of the Task Force mem¬
bers have been threatened with
a loss of their job within the
church because of their associ¬
ation with the Task Force. One
of them is a priest and a pastor
who among other things sup¬
ported the Domestic Partnership
legislation in his Sunday Bulle¬
tin. Another is a teacher in a
Catholic school. Another is a
nun working in the Chancery
Offices who is scorned and ques¬
tioned about her own involve¬
ment in a Task Force that aligns
itself with “queers.”

Some of these members of the
Task Force are heterosexuals and
place their positions within the
church on the line because they
are absolutely committed to ex¬
amining the church’s responsi¬
bility in the violence Lesbians
and Gay men experience in their
lives. Some of the members are
Lesbians and Gay men not em¬
ployed by the Archdiocese and
yet are viewed as “social lepers”
by some members of the clergy.
In spite of the violence we ex¬
perience from within and outside
of the institutional church, we
will continue to expose and to
heal the great chasm between
ourselves and this immense
institution.

T his is not a Gordon vs.
church controversy. It is 14
members of a Task Force of
which Kevin is one controversy.
We are theologians, social activ¬
ists, clinical psychologists,
public health specialists, busi¬
ness managers, nuns, brothers,
priests, laypersons, and teaclv
ers. Our unity was pointed out to
the Commission on Social Jus¬
tice on March 23 when we asked
Monsignor Armstrong to cease
portraying himself in a person¬
ality conflict with Dr. Gordon.
I believe that Armstrong under¬
stood this message very clearly.
I believe that Monsignor Arm¬
strong also understood that he is
not the Commission on Social
Justice but is a spokesperson for
the Commission. The March 23
meeting seemed to verify this, as
the Commission endorsed AB-1
and the Public Forum scheduled
for May 7 at Old St. Mary’s
Church. The Commission, in¬
cluding Monsignor Armstrong,
enthusiastically endorsed these
measures unanimously. Within
the confines of the Commission
and its Task Force on Gay/ Les¬
bian Issues, the Gordon vs.
Armstrong image seemed to
finally dissipate.

From the point of view of a
newspaper, human interest
stories about remarkable per¬
sons make for interesting read¬
ing. It may behoove the Bay
Area Reporter to hear other
voices within the Task Force on
Gay/Lesbian Issues. I believe
your readers would find them
fascinating. Might I suggest you
interview Father Robert Pfis-
terer, a Franciscan priest, pastor
of St. Boniface Church famous
for St. Anthony’s Dining Room.
Here is a man who is a priest
who pickets with the likes of Sal
Rosselli on behalf of striking
janitors. Here is a man who ser¬
monizes to his congregation on
the beauty of men loving men
and women loving women. This
is a man who feeds thousands
daily and has opened his arms
to a client who is physically
assaulted and offers him shelter
and food. In my mind, this is
one of the members of the Task
Force whose voice should be
heard. And, he is only one of 14
people who have successfully
challenged a 2000-year-old insti¬
tution and proclaimed to the
world, “Let my people go.” ■

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OAKLAND

The Nose Knows

Little Mother, Foxy Lady III,
will have a benefit buffet and raf¬
fles for KS/AIDS on Sunday,
May 8, at the Lake Lounge,
make a huge effort to partake
and participate in this one. It’s
a very worthy cause.

Be prepared . . . tickets are
being pushed by members of the
Oakland Pom Pons to raffle off
a bushel of booze. Tickets are go¬
ing for $1, and the winning ticket
will be drawn on Saturday, May
7. The winner need not be pre¬
sent to win, — which is perhaps
a good thing! The tickets don’t
mention where, or at which event
they will be selected. Maybe
posters will appear soon with all
the details.

Many people were a bit sur¬
prised, and caught off guard, if
you will, when a certain flyer ap¬
peared around town. It was for
a Pie Throwing Auction to
benefit Oakland Marching
Corps (Pom Pons, Banners,
Flags), held at the Bench and
Bar last Sunday. The “sur¬
prises” and “off guards” were
because of the fact that listed on
the flyers were names of in¬
dividuals who had “agreed” to
be available targets for the audi¬
tioned pies. Quite a few of the
“volunteers” had never even
been approached as to whether
or not they were, in fact, willing
to participate. Matter of fact, my
alter ego’s name appeared on the
list . . . THAT was certainly a
big surprise to moil I’ll be able
to give you a throw-by-throw
description of this event in my
next column.

The Oakland Float Commit¬
tee is sort of in a state of limbo
. . . mainly because we’re
waiting for “coming attractions”
to raise monies to buy the
necessary materials to construct
it. As a reminder . . . each of the
participating bars should be
preparing its “goal” ther¬
mometers so the public will be
kept informed as to just how
much is being raised through
their efforts.

Friday, April 29,
BWMT/East Bay is having a
roller skating party at Yankee
Doodle, 2317 Central, in
Alameda at 8 PM. If interested
in attending, call Mike at
763-1591.

The winners of Game 2 in the
East Bay Pool Tournament
were: White Horse 10 - Turf 6;

NEZ PAS

Revol 11 - Driftwood 5; Inbet-
ween 11 - Big Mama’s 5; and
Ollie’s 12 - Lake Lounge 4.
Game 4, scheduled for Monday,
April 25 is as follows: White
Horse at Inbetween, Turf at Big
Mama’s, Driftwood at Lake
Lounge, and Ollie’s at Revol.
Practice games are at 7 PM,
with the tournament beginning
at 7:30 PM.

Don’t forget. . . This Sunday
at Ollie’s Radclyffe Hall is when
Cabaret Gold Visits Oakland.
This great show will feature live
entertainment by three of the
winners of Cabaret Gold: Lynda
Bergren, best female vocalist
’82; David Reighn, best male
vocalist ’79, ’80, ’82; and Special
Guest Star, Lori Shannon, best
cabaret performer ’82. Tickets
are only $6 and show time is at
7 PM. All proceeds go to benefit
the Golden Swan Court.

The next meeting of the
Oakland Float Committee will
be on Wednesday, April 27, at 8
PM, Lake Merritt Hotel. Some
definite decisions will be made
at that meeting.

EGADS! There will be mud
wrestling at Ollie’s Radcliff Hall
on Sunday evening, May 1.
Somewhere in the back of my
addled head I seem to remember
promising Juan Romero that I
would be his opponent. . .IF he
wore high heel shoes! We’ll have
to wait and see what transpires!
All proceeds for that evening will
go to Oakland Marching Corps.

“Three for Thee” marathon is
still on for Sunday, Monday and
Tuesday, May 15, 16, 17, at
Lake Lounge, Revol, and Bench
& Bar. Banners will be up soon
with all the details.

Mama Chuckles will soon be
having her “Everyone’s A Win¬
ner” raffle. Each ticket will be
$50. and ONLY 100 will be sold.
Every ticket that is sold is an
automatic winner. More infor¬
mation on this later.

The week of May 8 is going to
be KS awareness week. Take
some time out, and some
money!, to really consider and
combat this dreaded disease.

Events coming up in Hayward
include: “Hayward Hubwifs”
present Sleaze & Tease, Sat.,
April 30, 8 PM to Midnight at
White Hall, 1026 B St.
Hayward. $2.50 admission. Pro¬
ceeds to Hayward Gay Sheriff
Float Committee. Emperor I,
Ed Paulson’s 6th Annual Benefit
Auction for Hayward Gay
Sheriff Float Committee, Sun¬
day, May 22, 4 PM to ? at Big
Mama’s.

Whatever happened to Em¬
press Stephanie?

Will it really all end
somewhere near where it all
began? If so, I’ll be smiling at
the end! Love, Nez I

Greater Bay and Then Some. This
member of Orange County Royalty at¬
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Gaj Day in San Jose

Organizers of San Jose’s Gay
Pride Celebration are predicting
that this year’s rally will be the
largest Gay event in the history
of the area.

The annual event will occur
on Sunday, June 19 at St. James
Park in downtown San Jose from
noon to 6 PM. Live music will
be featured throughout the after¬
noon. Admission will be free.

The committee organizing the
Gay Pride Celebration have call¬
ed on the Gay community to
volunteer and contribute what
they can to make this year’s event
a success. Volunteers are need¬
ed to publicize the event,
distribute fliers, and help set-up
and coordinate the June 19th
event.

Community organizations
and businesses may rent booth
space at the rally and purchase
advertising space in the advance
program which will be distribu¬
ted throughout Northern Cali¬
fornia. Booths will rent for $50,
$25 for information-only
vendors.

Contributions and booth
reservations may be sent to: Gay
Pride Celebration, P.O. Box
26255, San Jose, CA. 95159.

To volunteer your assistance,
or for further information,
please call Doug Winslow at
294-2311. ■

Conference on Gays and Bisexuals

The Bay Area’s entire com¬
munity is invited to attend a uni¬
que, long overdue Saturday Con¬
ference, Issues Uniting and
Dividing the Lesbian/Gay from
the Bisexual Communities. Co¬
sponsored by Berkeley’s Pacific
Center and San Francisco’s
Bisexual Center, the April 23, all
day event will be held at the In¬
stitute for Human Sexuality,
1523 Franklin St., San Francisco
(wheel chair accessible).

The morning panel, focusing
on shared antagonisms and
shared goals, highlights the
critically timely issues from
Bisexual, Gay Male and Lesbian
perspectives with group talk-
back to Maggi Rubenstein,
David Lourea, Alan Rockway,
Evie Hoch, Phyllis Lyon and
Hunter Morey. The lunchtime
program features films and
videotapes raising provocative
sexual and political questions.

Among the numbers of after¬
noon workshops are “Parenting
— Mommy What’s a Dyke?”;
“Coming Out . . . What?”;
“Dilemmas of Certain Married
Parties”; “Politics — Is a
Separate Bisexual Movement

Needed?”; “Sociodrama-con¬
frontation”; “Lebians and Bi¬
sexual Women Talking Back”;
“Mixed Marriages — Gay/Bi
Couples”; “Intimacies and
Diseases”; “Labels — what you
do and what you’re called”, and
other topics.

A final full session will inte¬
grate workshop conclusions and
propose concrete action for
Gay/Lesbian unity with the
emergent Bisexual Community,
both social and political — in¬
cluding the question of renam¬
ing the Parade in June, the Les¬
bian, Gay Bisexual Freedom
Day Parade. Conference orga¬
nizers note the significance of
those conspicuous by their
presence, as well as by their
absence.

Live music and comedy will
fill the day’s breaks. Registration
begins at 9:30 AM. The con¬
ference fee is $15, with stu¬
dent/unemployed fees on a
sliding scale to $5. Free childcare
is available on advance notice.

Info: Alan Rockway, Pacific
Center 548-8283, or Charlene
Michael or Jay Paul, Bisexual
Center, 929-9299. ■

Need a Gay Doctor
in East Bay?

Call Keith Barton, M.D.
for your health care needs

Certified by

American Board of Internal Medicine

845-4430

3099 Telegraph Ave. (so. of Ashby)

In The Berkeley
Holistic Health Center
Experience with
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Syndrome

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Entertainment

TAGE SCREEN SHOWS ROCK OPERA INTERVIEWS BOOKS MUSIC THE ARTS STAGE SCREEN SHOWS ROCK OPERA INTERVIEWS BOOKS MUSIC THE ARTS STAGE SCREEf'

T o Tell Desire From Despair

A Male Look at Feminism and Its Literature

Give Sorrow Words

by Maryse Holder
Avon Books, 1980

Selfiove and Orgasm

by Belly Dodson

P.O. Box 1933, Murray Hill Station
New York, NY 10156; *5

by Ron Bluestein

The greatest poverty is not to live

In a physical world, to feel that one’s desire

Is too difficult to tell from despair.

— Wallace Stevens, Esthetique du Mai

. . in reality, what freedom is, can, or will be has not been
presented to the masses in concrete and intelligible form. The
potential for general happiness has not been tangibly described
to them. Whenever someone attempted to do so in order to win
them over, they were presented with the sick, wretched, guilt-
ridden pleasures that can be found in the philistine lower-
middle class dives and honky-tonk joints. The core of happiness
in life is sexual happiness. No one with political power has dared
touch upon this.”

— Wilhelm Reich, The Sexual Revolution

“... a veil is drawn over the real life of pornography. What
advertises itself as nakedness is shrouded. What is called frank¬
ness is denial. What is called passion is the death of feeling.
What is called desire is degradation.”

— Susan Griffith, Pornography and Silence

I

P rior to 1973, if feminism or
the women’s movement per¬
meated my consciousness at
all, it was as “Women’s Lib.”

Feminists were “Women’s Lib¬
bers,” and, more often than not,
were the butt of Las Vegas come¬
dic humor. The media of that era
did little to educate. “. . . in
1972, in a ‘special issue’ on
women. Time was still musing
genially that the movement
might well succeed in bringing
about ‘fewer diapers and more
Dante,’” Joan Didion writes,
and she cannot help adding:

“That was a pretty image, the
idle ladies sitting in the gazebo
and murmuring lasciate ogni
speranza . . .” (The Women’s
Movement ) Sometimes it seems
that the current press is caught
in 1973 — or 1953, or 1253. A re¬
cent headline in The National
Enquirer (scoff if you wish, it’s
the nation’s largest-selling
paper) announced that “wo¬
men’s lib” was turning husbands
into — oh, I can’t remember —
was it rapists or spineless jell-o
molds resembling horseshoe
crabs?

In 1973, on the first leg of a
journey to Philadelphia, I stayed
with a college friend in Colorado
Springs, home of the Air Force
Academy, one of the Army’s
forts, and, of all things, a hotbed
of nascent feminist women. My
friend, whom I’d always ad¬
mired as an intellectual and psy¬
chological adventuress, had
broken from one nonorgasmic
affair and an equally unsatisfy¬
ing near-marriage with a man
who, quicker than you can say
qui tollis peccata mundi, subse¬
quently married, became a uni¬
versity professor, a Catholic con¬
vert, and the father of three.

Betsy embraced feminism, as so
many women did, with the pas¬
sion appropriate to a new lover,
and, indeed, the relationship be¬
tween feminism and sexuality
was basic, primal, deep. Femi¬
nism was for Betsy, I believe, the
rediscovery that the company of
women was as valid and validat¬
ing as the company of men — as
interesting and more comfort-
BAY AREA REPORTER APRIL

ing; more important, feminism
was the unveiling of the female
genital and the discovery of mas¬
turbation and orgasm. This is
meant quite literally: conscious¬
ness-raising group rap sessions
led to “self-health” classes in
which Betsy would open her va¬
gina with a speculum before a
group of women who would be
encouraged to examine and ex¬
plore their own genitalia. Betsy
practiced and practiced mastur¬
bating, turned what had been in
her mind self-abuse into self-
love, and in her mid-twenties had
her first orgasm.

Here, finally, was a political
movement I could understand,
based on the awakening of per¬
sonal happiness, dedicated to
the separation of desire from de¬
spair. My enthusiasm was only
bounded by my sex (men in the

a female self, to love the
female self, in oneself
or in another.

Substitute for “Lesbian” what¬
ever word you use to denote a
male homosexual, and change
the word “woman” to “man.” A
men’s movement would not deal,
at least primarily, with men’s
relations to women, but with the
relations between men. It took
generations of women suffering
from radical sexual dysfunction
before some of them were des¬

Feminism, based on the awakening of
personal happiness, dedicated to the sepa¬
ration of desire from despair, was a political
movement I could understand.

women’s movement were and
still seem to be about as welcome
as Nazis in the Jewish Under¬
ground), and my open enthusi¬
asm for pornography, hetero-
and homosexual, which identi¬
fied me surely as a member of
the opposing caste. The men’s
group in Colorado Springs dis¬
integrated into a drinking club
before it disbanded, and an or¬
ganized men’s auxiliary to the
women’s movement has not
formed in the decade that has
passed since then. After reading
this statement by Susan Griffith,
why it never happened suddenly
becomes clear:

Let us look at what
lesbianism might mean
outside the pornograph¬
ic mind. A lesbian is a
woman who loves anoth¬
er woman: a woman
who loves, cherishes,
touches, soothes, brings
pleasure and ecstasy to
the body of another wo-
21. 1983 PAGE 20

perate and courageous enough to
change. Most men have learned
the solace of masturbation and
most men have orgasms. Men
are not, unbelievably, unhappy
enough yet to confront each
other and change.

My readings in the feminist
literature contra pornography
were hardly ameliorative and, of
course, they were not meant to
be. Gloria Steinem asks us all to
“consider also our spirits that
break a little each time we see
ourselves in chains or full labial
display.” (The equation of full
erectile display and chains is not
made.) Hers is one of the less
damning indictments. Laura
Lederer (Take Back The Night )
sees nothing in pornography but
“the celebration of male power
over women and the sexist wish
that women’s sexuality and
values be totally subservient to
men.” Andrea Dworkin gave the
incendiary title “Why So-Called
Radical Men Love and Need

diary sentence: “Men love
death.” Mary Daly brilliantly
represents feminism at its most
incandescently, homosexually
aroused in Gyn/Ecology, which
elevates misanthropy to a virtue.
Susan Griffith replaces Daly’s
hatred with an even more (seem¬
ingly) unanswerable argument

— humanistic, elegant, and sane

— against pornography’s de¬
humanization. What is most ob¬
jectionable is that pornography’s
images exist “for the purpose of
exciting male sexual pleasure.”
(Susan Lurie) It is here one
wants again to quote Didion on
consciousness-raising groups:
“They seized as a political tech¬
nique a kind of shared testimony
. . . (which was) a therapeuti¬
cally oriented American re¬
interpretation, according to the
British feminist Juliet Mitchell,
of a Chinese revolutionary prac¬
tice known as ‘speaking bitter¬
ness.’” Laurel Holliday, in her
book The Violent Sex, pushes
bitterness right over the edge into
the comic with her recipes for the
production of a female fetus in
utero.

In no way do I intend to deni¬
grate, disparage, or ridicule the
research of these feminist writ¬
ers; I mean merely to express
some of the confusion and guilt
attendant on the reading of these
writings by a man who loves men
and women, sexual freedom,
and pornography. I was not pre¬
pared to give up pornography:
lacking both a love life and a sex
life, I am one of those “so-called
radical men” who love and need
pornography. (If you wonder
how a homosexual male in San
Francisco could have no sex life,
I refer you to the Japanese pro¬
verb, “Even with one’s belly as
full as an egg and one’s phallus

as taut as a bow, one can die both
of love and hunger.”) Pornogra¬
phy holds a central place in my
life, and rather than give it up, I
became one of its critics. The
question of why men have creat¬
ed a very visible hard-core por¬
nography and women have not
has not been exhausted or even
satisfactorily addressed and will
be the subject of a future col¬
umn. For the moment, I would
like to introduce my readers to
two women writers who go
against the prevailing feminist
grain.

II

I f it is true that “nothing is
revolutionary except candor,”
as Robert Desnos asserts,
then Maryse Holder, the author
of the letters from Mexico col¬
lected under the title Give Sor¬
row Words, is the truest revolu¬
tionary. This is how she begins
her first letter:

Had been going to
write you ebullient sex
letter intermixed with
poetic epistemological
reflections of being re¬
born in the crater of civ¬
ilization but I actually
fucked him this after¬
noon and it was grubby
and banal, as you always
knew . . . Sheez. He had
metallic breath and I
shit-juice in underwear
from Exlax-induced
runs. So grubadick . . .
so grubadick was he. Sex
with men, how can I say,
lacks the personal.

Joan Didion or Fran Leibowitz
might have the candor to write
about their fears, their loves and
hates, their migraines, but chart¬
ing the condition of their under¬
wear and its social and psycho¬
logical implications is outside
the scope of their studies. It is
too private, too personal, unpro¬
fessional, too “grubadick.” Love,
though, “has pitched its man¬
sion in the place of excrement,”
which is just another way of say¬
ing that love itself is grubadick.
Love and sex are Maryse Hold¬
er’s themes and, emboldened by
her association with the women’s
movement, she went to Mexico,
discovered her passion for
“bright guttersnipes,” ignored
her own edict of choosing “one
theme or metaphor,” of being
“wary of private associations,”
and compulsively composed let¬
ters anatomizing her love, lust,
hunger, body, despair, pain,
loss, self. Yeats finishes the line
quoted above: “And nothing can
be sole or whole that has not
been rent.” Maryse paid the
highest price for her candor and
her place in literature: her body
was found alongside a Mexican
road, the skull smashed.

Mexico, Maryse declared, was
her “vacation from feminism.”
“Heterosexuality — when one is
sexual — ” she writes, “is a
strain on feminism.” Maryse liv-
(Continued on page 32)

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PAGE 21

GayWHOGayWHATGayWHEREGayWHENGayWHYGayWHOGayWHATGayWHEREGayWI

Chorale Debut

“Praise the Lord, we are a
musical nation,” jests a
character of Dylan Thomas’
Under Milk Wood as a floor-
scrubber murders a tune
while she works. Thomas may
have been jesting about his
Welshmen, but the comment
seems true about America’s
Gay population. Non¬
professional Gay participa¬
tion in the arts is hardly un¬
common these days, and San
Francisco’s newest musical
group makes its debut this
week. Dick Kramer, known as
the founder and first director
of the Gay Men’s Chorus, has
started this new group, nam¬
ed the Dick Kramer Gay
Men's Chorale, and he told the
B.A.R. about the group and
its first four concerts, being
held April 21, 22, 24 and 29.

“I organized the Dick
Kramer Gay Men’s Chorale in
September of 1982. After leav¬
ing the Gay Men’s Chorus I
wanted to continue making
music with Gay men. We still
have a statement to make and
although some of my singers
have been or are in the Chorus
there are other Gay men who
want to make music.

“I feel that with this group it
will be easier to relate to the
whole community, and by that
I mean the straight community.
It’s long been my feeling that
Gay people need to do that.

“There are 31 men in the
Chorale, as opposed to 140 in the
Chorus. This smaller size
enables me to do music of a
chamber sort as well as larger
pieces. My name appears in the
group’s title since I am shaping
the group more personally than
is frequently done.

“Our first concerts, which
we’ve been preparing since last
September, purposefully cover
ground. Our audience and the
Chorale needs exposure to the
variety of men’s choral music
that exists. Besides, my ears de¬
mand variety. I’ve included two
pieces by Ives, a revival song
called ‘Zion’s Walls’ arranged by
Aaron Copeland, an ‘Ave Maria’
by the contemporary Finnish
composer Rautavaara and ‘The
Last Words of David’ by Randall
Thompson. These modern
works contrast romantic pieces
by Finzi — the beautiful song
‘Thou Didst Light My Eyes’ —
and ‘Four Scriptural Songs’ by
Brahms with earlier works by
Lassus, Croce and Handel. Fur¬
ther variety comes with a bass
aria from Faust and ar¬
rangements by Griffes and
Copeland of four ‘Songs of the
Sea.’

“Some of the texts, especially
the Thompson, deal with libera¬
tion. They’ll have special mean¬
ing for our Gay audience, but
not specific enough to preclude
a more general audience.

“The group is suddenly —
even this week — making a
wonderful sound. That’s what
turns me on about the whole
process. It’s political to use that
word, Gay, and be Gay per¬
formers. But that’s secondary.
Making music is our raison
d’etre.” ■

The Dick Kramer Gay Men’s
Chorale in Concert: April 21 and 22,
Church of the Advent, 261 Fell; April
24, The Pride Center (a 50/50 bene¬
fit); April 29, St. Boniface Church, 133
Golden Gate. All performances are at
8 PM; tickets are $6. Info: 863-0342.

Dick Kramer, whose new Gay Men’s Chorale debuts this week.

Dreams/Schemes

Known to many as Daniel
Scandal, Daniel Robeski is
currently exhibiting his un¬
usual collection of collage
works at The Bear, 440 Castro,
through June 1. Dreams/
Schemes as he calls the exhib¬
it, combine together elements
of the mystical, erotic and
apocalyptic in large size col¬

lages that nearly defeat repro¬
duction. The collages juxta¬
pose the sacred and the pro¬
fane and are frequently
elaborately byzantine in their
depth of detail.

Robeski makes the process of
composition sound easy, al¬
though the finished product
belies his breeziness. “I sort
through piles of pictures, maga¬
zines, books and old prints un¬

Frequent B.A.R. contributor Adele Prandini (second from right) is one of Four
Women in Search of A Solo, a theatre montage of original works. Susan Dam-
broff, Debbie Israel and Anne Leonard complete the quartet. They’ll perform for
four nights, April 22-23 and 29-30 at Studio W. (22nd and Capp Streets). Curtain
at 8:30; admission $4. (photo: Z. Moske) ■

til I find just the right images for
whatever I’m doing at the time,”
he said.

“I’ve even picked stuff off the
street and incorporated it. The
whole process is one of ‘finding’
the suitable images and then
assembling them into a com¬
pleted ‘cosmic puzzle’ I’ve work¬

ed out in my head.”

Robeski feels his combina¬
tions of the sexual, religious,
elegant and low-brow “serve up
the fact that in everyday reality
the loftiest motivations will be
inevitably vulgarized, while in
the spiritual realm all is equally
sacred.” ■

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STAGE

Pharmaco And Fantasy

or

In Between the Tricks and the Tragedies

by Scott Treimel

K ing of the Crystal Palace is more a vision than a play. It is not
the conception of a mechanistic intelligence but a dusky impres¬
sion coaxed from that part of the mind where the soft musing of
dreamwork occurs. The play conjures up the world inside “a typical
South of Market flea trap,” replete with drug addiction, love-torn
souls, and infinite anguish. It does not, however, explore these as
issues; there are no willful resolutions, no moments of epiphany, no
prescriptive finality. King of the Crystal Palace is a matrix of themes
that redouble, fall away, converge, and sometimes collide. Together
they posit something more basic than the existential terms of hap¬
piness, which is here beside the point. The point is survival, and what
playwright C. D. Arnold suggests is a certain view of the world that
sees life as therapeutic strategy.

The lights rise on the loft
where Seth, an overwrought
playwright with a stagey disposi¬
tion, works. He is like Tom in
The Glass Menagerie, both the
narrator and a player. He tells us
he must write a play, needs the
money, has no choice. Of course
this is baloney. He must write a
play because he has one to write,
and it is as phlegm to him —
something he must cough up.
Seth also tells us of his lover Rob,
whose courtship with crystal
Methadrine is progressing to a
more committted relationship.
Seth’s love for Rob is organic, it
clutches his gut, and Rob’s grow¬
ing estrangement has set tension
a foot. This is what we know as
Seth commences to write his
play, which then unfolds before
us.

The play is Seth’s rendition of
what happens in the South of
Market flea trap owned by the
sensible Mo, Seth’s devoted, pro¬
tective, heterosexual liaison. She
is coping with an indistinct
dissatisfaction and is distressed
by the diffusion in the household
the three constitute. There was
a fourth, Lyle, an acknowledg¬
ed space cadet, but he fled San
Francisco and hemorrhaged to
death in an airplane washroom.

Rob has taken up with a
fellow named Simon, a Black
man who deals drugs and likes
to get Rob in the sack. Simon is
the metaphor come to life — the
dark tempter — and he plays on
Rob’s itch for addiction. It seems

resilience sees them through to
the point at which the play ends.

What these characters survive
is not primarily their individual
struggles but the dailiness of life.
Seth might bottom out writing
his next play. Mo might again
lose her gumption — survival is
an impermanent achievement.
King of the Crystal Palace

to your reason. You know these
people, and are perhaps even
among them.

The assembly that enacts
these characters performs well,
with one stand-out in each direc¬
tion. Ann Block as Mo is an un¬
canny actress. Though absolute¬
ly unassuming, she wins your at¬
tention every minute she is on
stage. She loves Seth and yet is
exasperated by him. When she
says, “We’ve got to get a handle
on things or we’re not going to
make it,” the entire complex of
her feelings is present. You know
that even her love has its limits
and they are drawing near. Mo
senses this herself and it
frightens her. Ms. Block, who
seems made for intimate theater,
conveys all this at once. J.
Carlton Powers as Simon, on the
other hand, has yet to command
his character. It gets away from
him, so when he excitedly bursts
into Rob’s room and reports
another drug bust, you sense he
is playacting. The character may
well be playacting, for he is
paranoid, a dealer, and he may

King of the Crystal Palace is a rich play,
tender and humorous and at all times
gripping.

refuses to hem the world inside
a tidy package, so it leaves its
characters’ future uncertain. It
also maintains neutrality. You
can, for example, read the story
of Seth and Rob a dozen ways.
While the play supports each of
them, it convinces you of none.
Seth’s mind, in which most of
the play is set, is too honest to
settle on a one-sided truth, so in¬
stead of interpreting the events
it replays and muses on them.

I see a problem here. The
events are passionate, charged,
fist-clenched fits. It seems to me
unlikely that a mind recollecting
this feverishness could render it
neutrally. I have never known a
mind to range this kind of pas¬
sionate turf without succumbing
to judgment. A mind that has a
ferocious story in it, and Seth’s
surely has this, might foresake
one point of view but rather than
settle on none I should think

The sight of a beautiful full moon brings a moment of calm to Ann Block
and Chuck Solomon during KING OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE. (Photo:
M.I. Chester)

want to exploit his situation to
aggrandize himself. Still, Mr.
Powers is not behind his lines
and seems uneasy inside his
body.

Steven Patterson is a
believable Rob, troubled and
often tortured. He has presence
and a sure technique, but his
performance could reach deeper.
The boyish enthusiasm of
Thomas-Mark’s Rocky deepens
earnestly. He pitches the role
correctly. Chuck Solomon’s
fidgety portrayal of Seth con¬
veyed the drama about the
character, but not who he was.
Solomon stepped into the role a
week before opening, however;
no doubt he will evolve during
the run.

As a play that takes place in
the mind, King of the Crystal
Palace must be encased in a
visual haze, like the blurry quali¬
ty of an early photograph. Direc¬
tor Chuck Solomon deserves
congratulations for actualizing
the woolly mood that is the soul
of the play. He has stylized the
action to soften its edges and
fashioned its surface into the tex¬
ture of dreams. Steve Douglas
created the dim, evocative
lighting and John Sowle is
responsible for the chalky,
muted colors of the set design.
Together they evince the land¬
scape of dusky recollection.

Theatre Rhinoceros is truly
coming into its own. It can now
manage the finished look it has
long been after, and with King
of the Crystal Palace proves it
can also go after the soul. This
is a theatre company; they do
King of the Crystal Palace
right. ■

Rob wants dependence,
preferably nonhuman, so one
night he and Simon shoot speed
and escape to their other addic¬
tion, a bathhouse. The action is
decisive: Rob opts for a life of
pharmaco and fantasy and
leaves Seth.

The house is oozing drama
now. Seth’s play has permeated
his pores and poisoned him to
the world outside his invention.
Mo flees the no-longer sufferable
scene to regain autonomy in
Mexico. A boarder named
Rocky, fresh from 24 straight
years in Anaheim, moves in.
South of Market’s sexual circus
has him wide-eyed with excite¬
ment, which puts him at odds
with the skulking Seth. No mat¬
ter, the two survive. Everyone
survives. Simple human

would try out several.

Theater going audiences no
longer expect a directing point of
view, and I include my reflec¬
tions here for Mr. Arnold’s con¬
sideration and for those critically
interested in his work. That it
can support such interest is
beyond question, for King of
the Crystal Palace is a vastly
rich play. It is the playwright’s
first full-length venture, and a
success, tender and humorous
and at all times gripping. The
language is beautiful. Arnold’s
ear is true; his diction is flawless
and not one word of dialogue
sticks. He has given his
characters lines that very often
float, and the characters
themselves are gratifying crea¬
tions. Though not frought with
complexity, they are never false

King of the Crystal Palace

Theatre Rhinoceros
Through May 21; 861-5079

Creative Stagecraft

Peter Hartman, Artistic
Director of 544 Natoma Perfor¬
mance Gallery, will give five in¬
tensive workshops in creative
stagecraft, Wednesday evenings
6-9 PM, from April 27 through
May 25, to produce short perfor¬
mance events to be included in
June programming.

These workshops will center
on practical staging techniques
for Performing Artists or those
wishing to explore Performance
Art as a means to extend their
expressive language in a
theatrical context. Enrollment is
limited. Info: 621-2683. ■

Speeding Into Fantasy. A high-powered moment in CRYSTAL PALACE,
as J. Carlton Powers (l.) and Steven Patterson spin off together into the
separating fantasies of drugs.{ Photo: M.I. Chester)

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Not Enough Fun, Pops

by George Heymont

I doubt the members of the San
Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus
could have had a more recep¬
tive audience rooting for them at
their formal debut on the stage of
the War Memorial Opera House.
Spirits were high and people were
looking forward to an evening of
pops. Many in the audience were
anxious to give their friends a
warm and hearty welcome.
“Thank God there’s none of that
Schubert shit on the program,”
muttered one patron before the
curtain went up.

Yet, for a concert entitled Too
Much Fun (which had been in
the planning stages for quite some
time) the SFGMC seemed overly
cautious in performance — as if
the chorus members were
perhaps afraid to let loose and en¬
joy themselves. The Lollipop
Guild and Chamber Singers had
no problem playing to a near¬
capacity house and winning the
audience’s approval. The main
body of the chorus, however,
stuck to soft, gentle crooning
which bordered on dullness. And
it’s hard to have too much fun
when everyone onstage is as stiff
as a board!

There were some technical pro¬
blems in the house which con¬
tributed to the overall effect and
these should be noted,before we
get into reviewing the program.
Because the members of the
chorus were positioned a distance
upstage, an acoustical and com¬
municative barrier developed
between the musicians and the
audience.

One of the strongest assets this
chorus has is its ability to com¬
municate with an audience
through its sheer strength of spirit
and vibrant good looks. Yet
throughout most of the evening
the chorus was drenched in dark,
moody pastels which cast long
shadows on the faces of its
members. In those few moments
when front lighting was used not
only did the chorus seem to perk
up, the audience response was
noticeably different. When
dancers and smaller subgroups of
the chorus came out on the apron

or forestage to perform, the
change in communication was
ominously apparent.

Second were the problems with
sound. In many of the works
where the entire chorus was per¬
forming conductor Ernie Viegas
kept the singing muted — an ef¬
fect which works well to show off
the men’s musicianship but
which very quickly leads to an
alarming sameness of sound. In
the early part of the concert the
solos were barely audible. Subse¬
quent miking for Sean Mar-
tinfeld and Robert Erickson, in
particular, made a stunning
difference.

Third was a problem with ar¬
rangements (particularly those
by Gene Obert) which tended to
blend into a monochromatic
oneness. These (coupled with the
feeling that the chorus’ energy
wa s being very conservatively dol¬
ed out) put an unnecessary
damper on the evening.

The Gay market as a whole
doesn’t appear to have an in¬
satiable appetite for Muzak.

The audience eventually did
get entertained, but it was only
when the Chamber Singers sank
their teeth into Gilbert &
Sullivan’s “With Catlike Tread”
from The Pirates of Penzance
that any sense of fun began to fill

the Opera House. The main
chorus scored strongly with
Rachel Krabes’ witty medley
based on commercial jingles. The
strongest number of the evening
was a knockout parody of the
“Lida Rose/Will I Ever Love
You”duetfrom The Music Man.
Sean Martinfeld’s riotous and
campy drag portrayal of Marian
Paroo was backed by the Lollipop
Guild in top form. The finale “I
Sing The Body Electric” was ex¬
citingly choreographed by Ran¬
dall Krivonic.

What remained a mystery,
however, was the overtly
schizophrenic nature of the even¬
ing. The smaller groups had no
trouble establishing an audience
rapport and displaying their

showmanship (evidence of their
ability to reach out and com¬
municate). The main body of the
chorus seemed anesthetized into
a docile — nay, almost dormant
giant. This is a men’s chorus with
an outstanding bass section and
a fine set of tenors, all capable of
producing formidable sounds
which can thrill any audience.

An evening of pops and fun,
huh? Come on, guys, loosen up!
If you expect your audience to en¬
joy themselves then you’ve got to
look as if you’re having a good
time, too. It’s a two-way street.

The solution? Sing out,
Louise! ■

CABARET

No Clones

Allen numbers, including the
worldly-wise “Taught By Ex¬
perts,” with its slap-in-the-face
last line, “better you get hurt
than me.”

I have not been struck by a
“new” talent since I first saw
The Hal and David Show as
I have with a year’s exposure to
the nightclub performances of
Scott Rankine. Regular readers
of my singer critiques will know
what such a liking entails — a
unique and self-cultivated per¬
sonality, a sound that is simi¬
larly unique to its possessor, a
catholic repertory reflecting
multi-faceted taste and musical
knowledge, and, most impor¬
tantly, some degree of sophisti¬
cation.

That’s a stiff checklist. But
why should I want local Min¬
nelli, Manilow or Davidson
clones when the originals and
other full-blown professionals of
the ilk are readily available?
The local artists I’ve liked best
are those who have carved out
their own niche, not simply tak¬
en their place on an assembly
line of pop performers.

Scott Rankine meets all my
standards and then some. In ap¬
pearance, style, and sound he is
unmistakable from any other
singer. His performances are
polished despite his minimal ex¬
perience and his focus tight. His
song bag is choice, including
standards slyly worked over
(“Makin’ Whoopee”), Broad¬
way gems (“Napolean” from

JOHN F. KARR

Jamaica and “Sweettime” from
Raisin) and the best contempo¬
rary tunes. Among these are
Rupert Holmes’ “People That
You Never Get to Love,” which
has heavy resonance for a Gay
audience, and several Peter

Scott Rankine (Photo: Rink)

Fresno born, there’s frequent¬
ly a drawl to his phrasing, a
bluesy sound to his improvisa¬
tions and a rhythmic thrust that
makes me feel he’s an R<&B
singer from Memphis. Then
he’ll slip into his Noel Coward
guise and you’d swear you were
sipping tea in a Bloomsbury
drawing room. Equally smooth¬
ly, and predominantly, he is as
contemporarily American as
any self-respectingly hip
cabaret-goer could desire.

Charismatic and sexy, his
identity has not been shaped by
whatever is currently trendy in
Gay life or music, but has been
carefully molded to his talents.
That’s what convinces us —
besides his appreciable talent —
that what he’s doing is so excel¬
lent. His next solo performance
will be three sets at Fanny’s on
April 24, starting at 8:30 PM.

★ ★ ★

Another singer with an origi¬
nal style and sound is Stephen
Sloane. Not as polished as Ran¬
kine, Sloan is likely to fidget
around between numbers, trying
to entertain. But reaching the
song he’s focused. His style is
fresh, veering lightly into jazz.
He’s free inside a tune, and his
hummingbird voice darts about
with pleasurable creativity. His
voice is light as a thistle, with a
slight burr which broadens into

(Continued on page 27)

BAY AREA REPORTER APRIL 21, 1983 PAGE 24

FILM CLIPS

REVIEWS BY MICHAEL LASKY & STEVE WARREN

Andy Warhol’s Bike Boy will be presented by Frameline at a special midnight
screening, Saturday, April 30, at the Castro Theatre. This knockout Warhol feature
from 1967 is typically zonked-out, funny, dispassionate and compassionate. A
motorcyclist arrives in the Big Apple from California. He takes a shower and slowly
combs his hair. He visits a men’s boutique and tries on underwear to the delight
of the male staff. He discusses flagellation with a woman in a florist shop. A woman
tries to arouse him by stripping in her kitchen, while delivering a monologue on
the proper way to make an omelette. Yet another woman, stoned on speed, belit¬
tles his sexuality for the delectation of her impotent husband. Finally, he gives
in to the browbeating of Viva, who could seduce a stone, and here does . . . Joe
Spencer is the bike boy, and the cast also includes Brigid Polk, Viva Ingrid Superstar,
and, briefly, Valerie Solanis, who was later to shoot Warhol. Warhol wrote, pro¬
duced and directed, letting Paul Morrissey run the camera. Tickets $4. ■

Flashdance

Dance 10, Film 3

Former British TV commer¬
cial director Adrian Lyne set out
in Flashdance to recreate the
energy and exuberance of Fame.
He has captured much stylish
vitality with lean and muscular
dancing, flashily staccato fire
and ice photography, and a siz¬
zling dance music soundtrack by
Giorgio Moroder, but the film’s
screenplay betrays common
sense halfway through.

Newcomer star Jennifer Beals
plays a Pittsburgh welder by
day/saloon dancer by night and
is a remarkably “hot” talent.
This girl can sure dance and she
reveals acting skills as well. She
is stuck, however, in a story as
old as Herb Caen jokes that has
talented kids working towards
fulfilling their dreams of per¬
forming professionally. Until
then, they settle for blue collar
labor and a chance to do produc¬
tion numbers in a rowdy redneck
bar in Steeltown.

Steel mill boss Michael Nouri,
an Italian stallion, uses his
power to get girlfriend Beals a
coveted audition at the local
dance academy, a dance school
that’s harder to gain admission
to than the Bolshoi.

Flashdance is just a small
town girl picture that happens to
be dressed up in eyecatching
visuals, snappy city rhythms,
and a hip sensibility that com¬
municates the life in dance and

vice versa. The screenplay may
be predictable at times, but the
sheer talent displayed on screen
makes this more than a flash in
the pan effort. ■

(Royal) M. Lasky

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This 54-minute original video
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Best Musical Video of the year.
With fantabulous sets and cos¬
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wandering through, and 13
“greatest hits” warbled by Olivia
Newton-John, there is certainly
enough entertaining.

How much you like it, of
course, depends on how much
you can tolerate Olivia’s whis¬
pered delivery, all of it lip-
synched, even in parts that place
her in a mock rock concert
setting.

The first three numbers are
worth it if you haven’t seen them
on network television or in clubs
and bars. During the opening se¬
quence she sings the infectious
song in a gleaming, tiled gym
crammed with sinewy, well-
endowed huskies wearing
Speedos. The surprise ending
has them walking out hand in
hand, leaving our poor Aussie in
the lurch. In “Landslide,” the
opener, she sizzles with her real
life boyfriend, prettyboy Matt
Lattanzi, as a somewhat dis¬
robed and arduous Musketeer.

The picture resolution is
vivid, colors sharp, and sound
crystal clear. Altogether it’s di¬
verting and worth a workout.

MICHAEL LASKY

MUSCLE MOTION

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A few years ago a self-
improvement video called Aero-
bercise met with a crazed suc¬
cess when shown on the Show¬
time cable network. It was little
more than soft porn in the guise
of exercise. But it was sexy and
artfully shot by former fashion
photographer Ron Harris.

Then Jane Fonda added a
male body or two to the scene in
her Work Out video. But that
was not enough. I kept wonder¬
ing when a tape would exploit
muscular male bodies in the
guise of aerobics instruction.

Now Media Home Entertain¬
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virile verve as the men of Chip¬
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vigorous rigors of Muscle Mo¬
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their well-shaped, undulating
bodies and the boys know how
to strut their stuff.

The collection of beefcake
hunks work out in suitable
clothes — skimpy, such as either
skintight or teasingly loose gym
shorts. The eight men take us
step by step from beginner’s to
advanced workouts. The aerobic
exercises are actually worthwhile
and handsomely photographed,
but with these men to look at,

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who winds up working out what
the tape supposedly had in
mind?

Look out for beefy Sam who
does the hottest sit-ups ever with
shorts that offer teasing, better-
than-porn peeks at his vital sta¬
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One complaint is the annoy¬
ingly coy voice-over instructions
of a breathy woman, which
seems out of place. But the
disco-flavored music by Mark
Allen Trujillo is perfect to get the
men pumpin’, jumpin’, and
humpin’.

A splendid tape perfect for
actually doing exercise and also
a fun entertainment, Muscle
Motion is a best buy at $39.95
suggested list — certainly the
lowest price for an original video
of this caliber. ■

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Susan and Sex

All right, guys. The men in the MUSCLE MOTION exercise video may
be distracting, but try and pay attention to the exercises.

On Monday, April 25, the
Strand Theatre (6th and
Market) will present a rollicking
program of high camp classics.
Headlining the program is the
made in S.F. hit, Whatever
Happened to Susan Jane?,
directed by Marc Huestis and
featuring Ann Block, Lulu, and
the Wasp Women.

Also on the program is a rare
screening of Elevator Girls in
Bondage, a mondo-bizarre ex¬
cursion into bad tase, and Glen
or Glenda — I Changed My
Sex, “The most shocking film of
1953” starring Bela Lugosi in
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Symphony Sallies Forth

T he San Francisco Sym¬
phony’s 72nd season and
fourth year in Davies Hall
was outlined last week by Music
Director Edo De Waart and it
looks like he’s accomplished a
minor miracle. Here, at last, is
a concert series that truly in¬
cludes something for everyone.

Programming for the 1983-84
season walks a fine line. It at¬
tempts pleasing the conserva-

Maestro Edo de Waart

PHILIP CAMPBELL

tives and progressives among us
without appearing subservient
to the public or neglectful of
high musical values.

There will be six major pre¬
mieres, a festival honoring
American composer Roger Ses¬
sions and performances of
works by neglected composers
such as Poulenc, Faure, and
Nielsen. A generous nod toward
contemporaries such as Steve
Reich and our own composer in
residence, John Adams. This
should whet anyone’s appetite.
But there will also be guest ap¬
pearances, special holiday
events and the debut of the new,
architecturally magnificent Ruf-
fatti organ.

Even the opening night prom¬
enade and gala makes more
sense than usual. Billed as a
star-spangled all American
event, the program will feature
works by Leonard Bernstein,
George Gershwin, and Edward
MacDowell.

The upcoming year offers am¬
ple opportunity to savor better
known works that seldom show
up in concert halls. The lovely
Symphony No. 3, “Espansiva,”
by shamefully neglected Danish
composer Carl Nielsen shines
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provoking Organ Concerto,
Faure’s delicate “Pelleas and
Melisande,” Benjamin Britten’s
charming “Simple Symphony”
and the spikey, revolutionary
Stravinsky Symphony in C and
Copland Symphony No. 3.

Choral works spotlighting the
wonderful contribution of direc¬
tor Margaret Hillis will figure
importantly at holiday times
with Handel’s “Messiah” for
Christmas, a complete Beetho¬
ven Mass in C, the Brahms’
German Requiem, and a won¬
derful inspiration for Easter, the
third act of Wagner’s “Parsifal.”

Each concert has obviously
been thought out from every
conceivable standpoint. Some¬
thing new, or at least modern,
will stand beside something pur¬
posely chosen for sheer sonic
splendor and a familiar work of
proven conventional appeal. Au¬
dience members will each be
able to walk away personally
satisfied knowing that their
individual tastes have been
catered to without insulting
their intelligence.

A first glance at the complete
season is dizzying, but when it
is stretched out over twenty-six
weeks what appears is a pro-

gram schedule of great promise,
intelligence, and flair that also
makes sense musically.

A hearty thank you from this
corner to Maestro de Waart and
the Symphony Association for
showing their willingness to lis¬
ten to feedback from their audi¬
ence and then for exhibiting a
love of the symphonic repertoire
in all its variety and wonderful
range of expression.

For a free copy of the season
brochure, phone 864-6000 or
write: San Francisco Symphony
1983-84 Season, Davies Sym¬
phony Hall, San Francisco, CA
94102. ■

What Becomes A
Semi-Legend Most?

W rong, it’s not Joan Rivers!
Besides, I gave her JAP-
glama promo away along
with the goochy bag that came
with it since the lp didn’t include
my favorite JAP joke, the one
about a Jewish American Prin¬
cess’ nipples being only the tip
of the iceberg.

I was just as ready to shit-can
Lou Reed’s new album on the
grounds it was probably more of
that “pablum for pacifists” crap
he’s churned out the last several
years as Spiro Agnew turned ag¬
ing cult hero.

Legendary Hearts, his latest
vinyl rap, is certainly no rocker’s
delight, not even a progressive
rocker’s delight, but its low-
keyed honesty is better than
most of his recent attempts at
imitating Lou Reed. None of the !
music is comparable to
“Heroin” or “Walk on the Wild
Side,” classic cult songs of an¬
other generation; it’s primarily
a talk on the mild side aka rap
with sap. But his insight and
honesty on Legendary Hearts ,
make Lou Reed live once again. 1

JERRY DE GRACIA

romper room only Mr. Rogers
and the terminally flippant (me,
for example) could appreciate.

Their “Earthquake Song,” a
nursery rhyme yakking about
the big one that’s going to get

L.A., which also appeared on
the lp Rodney On The Roq,
Volume II, right after Gleam¬
ing Spires “Are You Ready For
The Sex Girls,” is the highlight
of Thank Heaven! While the
musicians and vocalists, Caron
and Michele Maso, show prom¬
ise, also known as misguided
talent, their “gag me with a
joke” approach will probably of¬
fend more than it pleases. It
would probably work as a chart
song if the Go-Go’s hadn’t done
it to death. Quien sabe?

the Egyptian theme of the al¬
bum as a whole and features Syl¬
vester dancing among pyramids,
often with a snake wrapped
around his arm.

Sylvester accounts his con¬
tinued success to the fact that his
label, Megatone Records, did
not abandon dance music dur¬
ing the “disco is dead” period.
“People are still dancing and
there has to be music, which
Megatone is pumping out.”

There’s some irony in his hav¬
ing dance hits onthe Gay-owned
label. According to Sylvester, his
previous label, Fantasy, “said I
was over the hill and that I would
have to do only r<$b or jazz.” So
he made “Do You Want to
Funk” for Megatone. When it
became a hit, Fantasy decided
they wanted in on the action and
asked to distribute the 12-inch
single. “They wanted to know
why I hadn’t done the song for
them,” laughed Sylvester.

The “Hard Up” video has
been seen in clubs as well as on
HBO, Showtime, and MTV.
Now that he’s a video star, can
we expect a Sylvester-Leo Ford
duet? That would really be a
groundbreaker.■

Ignatius Jones’ Warner I
Brothers EP Like A Ghost has !
some of the prurient mystique of
Lou Reed’s music along with
some contemporary (Orchestral
Manoeuvres perhaps?) floating-
on-air synthesizer sounds. Like
A Ghost creates an alluring
enigma, much like the Simple
Minds recent Kabuki gig, that
is appealing, in fact downright
seductive, but difficult to cate¬
gorize without traipsing off into
flowery and nauseating similes.

In screeching contrast, lean- I
ing toward the absolute goofy, J
Thank Heaven! by Little Girls
offers two go-go mucks and four
valley dudes in a musical

Many weak albums after his early classics, Lou Reed scores on his new
LEGENDARY HEARTS lp with his simple, honest emotion. He looks more
like the type who says, “I promise, this won't hurt at all."

Hard Up Meets Hard On

Is recording star Sylvester
receiving tips on screen act¬
ing from porn-star Leo Ford?
They were lost in mutual ad-
miraton at the Cable Car
Awards, Leo's screen career
was already established; Syl¬
vester is just beginning his.
He’ll been seen soon on MTV,
with a $10,000 video clip of the
song “Hard Up” from his
album All I Need, which

(Photo: R. Pruzan)

has been dancing on the
Billboard dance charts for 18
weeks. MTV only programs
rock numbers, and Sylvester
is one of the few Black artists
to place a video on the station.
Sylvester said that although
the song was undeniably
rock, its r&b-flavored back¬
ground almost caused the clip
to be rejected by MTV.

The “Hard Up” video echoes

BACK TO BATON

BAY AREA REPORTER APRIL 21, 1983 PAGE 26

STAGE

A Night with Johnny Nieto

by Dan Turner

ewspace is a performance
gallery on Valencia, a street
that is fast developing a spe¬
cial identity, like the many other
areas of the city that have estab¬
lished a reputation or a history.
There is a special pleasure in
watching creative energies take
root and an additional delight in
participating, even if it’s just as
an infrequent observer. Having
lived in the neighborhood for
several years, I now find it ironic
to be returning for an evening’s
entertainment to “the place to
go.”

A changing neighborhood
can still challenge as well as sur¬
prise. On the way to attend dra¬
matic readings of new poetry,
prose, and a one-act play by
Johnny Nieto, I walked past
three young “toughs” on bi¬
cycles (not bikes) who were
harassing an inebriated, thin
man of debonair and dandified
distinction. As I realized what
might happen, I slowed my gait
and pretended to be looking in
the window of the Sports Palace
(a pretense not without reward).
Suddenly, the man dashed into
the street between on-coming
traffic and back again to me. He
was in shock and kept repeating,
“What did I do?” I advised him
to call a cab and go home, point¬
ed out to him that he had not
been physically harmed, albeit
psychologically battered, when
he dashed across the street
again, almost into the arms of

fur-clad Black women exiting
from a Baptist church. Then he
disappeared into the night, and
I turned in to Newspace to be
warmed by jazz and the dream
poetry of Johnny Nieto.

I missed the first scene of his
play, Daddy’s Home, describ¬
ing the encounter of a young
man with his father (or dream

Author Johnny Nieto (Photo: Rink)

of such) at a bathhouse. The
writing is sensuous and tender,
suggestive and ambiguous. Ex¬
periences and references related
do not seem to be as magnetic
as the proximity of- masculine
flesh. The drama seems to move
in and around the lines and the
permission to touch and not to
touch (so like theBncounters of
a father and son). After they

have sex, the young man asks,
“Do you mind my staying?”
The reply: “No. Not at all. But
thanks for asking.”

It is then a bit unexpected
when the young man says, “You
could have stayed home,” and
the father answers, “Then you’d
be here all alone.” If the fantasy
of sleeping with the father has
become a reality, the reality is
too casual. “Maybe I wouldn’t
need to be here” is an expression
of anger to the father that would
need to be carefully prepared for
by the actors, but then that is
why plays are best seen (like
sons) and not heard.

Johnny’s dream poetry is
lyrical with a tiptoe of devilish
cloven hooves. He says, “I’m
hanging up before the phone
rings.” His satire is mostly
political, such as “The bombs
were stale and didn’t work.”
Also, “Nuclear bombs painted
blue so you can’t see them com¬
ing over the horizon.”

The dream motif is a good
one because it allows the poet to
be romantic in a jaded age.
“Red’s a color for love. Can you
attract too much love?” What I
liked best about my night with
Johnny Nieto was his intimate
expression of self, a kind of fear¬
less ingenuousness which was
carefree and perhaps incor¬
ruptible.

Proof of this seems to have
been the good attendance and
participation of friends. They
can’t have all been in his
dreams, though some might
want to be. ■

CABARET

<Continued from page 24)

a quick vibrato. I find it innately
pleasing. Second to the sound he
makes, his chief asset is his in¬
tuitive musicality, which fresh¬
ens cliches and provides sur¬
prises where least expected. His
phrasing is hampered by gulped
breaths, and his vowels should
open up, but I don’t know an¬
other young singer who is so
developed and shows such
promise.

Sloan sings jazz standards,
gently rolling Portuguese and
Brazilian tunes and contempo¬
rary pop. He appears next at the
Roxy Roadhouse, Friday, April
29, at 9 PM.

★ ★ ★

Many events, from high-
priced to low. Bernadette Peters
spends two weeks at the Vene¬
tian Room, April 26 through
May 8. Shows at 9:30 and
11:30; 722-5163.

There’s seats available for
Liza Minnelli’s engagement at

the Golden Gate Theatre, April
23 through May 1; 8 PM each
night; 775-8800.

Ruth Hastings and Company
appear for two weekends at the
1177 Club, 1177 California, 8:30
PM on April 22-23 and 29-30;
776-2101.

Jae Ross continues Saturday
nights at the Roxy, 9:30 PM.

Pam Brooks at Fanny’s, April
28, 9 and 10:30, and at the 1177
Club, April 29, 5:30 and 7 PM.

J. Karr

Bathed In Words and Lights

The Noh Oratorio Society
presents Doctor Faustus Lights
The Lights , an opera by Ger¬
trude Stein, staged and directed
by Claude Duvall. There are
voices reading, singing, and
speaking, and there are electric
and acoustic instruments, and
there is the audience, they are all
in a field of lights. The music is
designed and played by Richard
Secrist and Nick Shryock. The
landscape of lights and the il¬
lumination devices are designed
and played by Susan Desaritz,
Dennis Hawley and Jefferson
Linck. It is an opera.

Seven performances will be
given at 8:30 PM, April 22-24,

29-May 1 and at 10 PM Thurs¬
day, May 12 as part of the Bay
Area Theatre Week. All perfor¬
mances are at the Valencia Rose;
admission $5 all times but
Sundays.

Gertrude Stein wrote Doctor
Faustus Lights The Lights in
1938, to be an opera with music
(which never happened) by Lord
Berners. Many musical settings
have happened (though sadly
not by Virgil Thomson): it has
the most “regular” dramatic
form of her many operas and
plays, and keeps much of the
traditional (Goethe) Faust
scenario. But Faust is made into
Thomas Edison, and Mephisto

is an alter ego, and Marguerite
is another double (“Her name is
Marguerite Ida and Helena
Annabel”).

Nick Shryock and Richard
Secrist have put the instant
charge of electricity from the
lights into the music, using the
VCO synthesizer (as primitive or
as modern as Thomas Edison),
the Yamaha Portasound key¬
board, and traditional in¬
struments with eletric amplifica¬
tion. All the structure, of sound
and light, comes from the words.
The meaning of the words is as
objective and clear as the
rhythms of the words. And the
audience sits, right in this land¬
scape, bathed in words and light.

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When Pat Conlon was a mere
boy growing up in Humboldt,
Iowa, his mother asked, “My
son, what do you want to be
when you reach the age of
reason? ” Without the least bit of
hesitation, fledgling Pat replied
in crisp clear words, “I want to
be the Captain of a bowling
team! ”

Pat’s mother, knowing him to
be an intensely determined child
(some uncharitable persons
might even say obstinate), felt
secure in the belief that her son,
despite the obstacles that fate’s
fickle fingers may place in his
path, would eventually realize
his goal.

It was shortly after arriving in
San Francisco, tattered bowling
ball bag in hand, that Pat began
searching for a league that might
need a conscientious team Cap-
tian. He searched and searched,
but found, much to his dismay,
that all the Gay Leagues (both of
them) needed only bowlers, no
Captains.

He began to feel despondent,
and even considered giving up
his life’s dream. Suddenly, the
realization came to him that if he
sponsored a team, it was possi¬
ble his leadership abilities would
be recognized and a Captainship
would follow. So, after becoming
the successful proprietor of the
prestigious Pilsner Inn on
Church Street, he sponsored not
one team but ten — 3 on Mon¬
day and 4 on Wednesday nights
at Park Bowl; 1 on Wednesday
and 2 on Thursday at Japan-
town Bowl. At last he felt
assured that soon an overwhelm¬
ing crescendo would vigorously
sweep him into his dreamed-of
post . . . Team Captain.
(Mother would be so proud!)

A groudswell did, in fact,
surge through the League and it
grew far beyond anything that
could have been imagined only
a few years earlier. Pat was in¬
deed caught-up in the Tavern
Guild Bowlers’ overpowering en¬
thusiasm that was fueled by their
confidence in his leadership
abilities. In less time than it
would take to say ferrocarilles de
cremalleras, he was unanimous¬
ly elected to the highest post pos¬
sible in the Tavern Guild Wed¬
nesday Night Bowling League,
that of PRESIDENT! And al-

JERRY R. DE YOUNG

though he has happily and effec¬
tively served in this responsible
post ever-since, there yet remains
a tiny portion of his heart that
yearns for that special dream
. . . Team Captain (Mother
would be so proud!)

Of the nine individuals record¬
ed below, Pat Conlon heads the
list as he leads four new
members into the distinguished
200+ club for this season.

4/13

Pat Conlon

-Pilsner I 243

Adrian Stenson

-Play With It, Ltd, One! 233

Ralph Bremner

-Play With It, Ltd, Too! 232

Angelo Maggio

-Pilsner I 214

A1 Welinski

-Sweet Inspirations 213

Alvin Anderson

-Arena Karma 212

Tim Hagerman

-Arena Karma 201

Michael Lamberta
-Pendulum Pin Pals 200

Lew Watson

-Pilsner IV 200

Meanwhile, in the team

category, the lineup as of
4/13/83.

Sweet Inspiration 9

Badlands 9

Arena Karma 9

Atherton Hotel 9

Pendulum Pin Pals 8

Pilsner I 7

Gay Sports Magazine 7

Pilsner 3 SFDC’S 7

Temptations 7

Play With It Ltd, Too! 6

Pendulum 6

S.F. Eagle 6

Stallion 5

Deluxe 5

Pilsner II 5

David Kelsey’s

Unmentionables 5

Pilsner IV 4

Play With It Ltd. One! 4

Park Bowl 4

Ambush 4

Animals 4

Grady’s 2

There are a few surprises in
the above situations, some
positive, some negative, but I
will not spoil your fun by point¬
ing them out. Instead, I will
simply say, bowl for the fun of
it and everything else will be
icing. ■

Sports Clubs

Frontrunners: Sunday, April
24. Angel Island trip. Meet at
Pier 43 V 2 for 10 AM ferry (fare
$5.50); 5 miles; hills; followed by
pot-luck picnic brunch; ferries
return at 12:45, 2:40 and 4:35.
Bring your friends.

Different Spokes: Sunday,
April 24. Ride to Montara. Hil¬
ly ride, brisk pace with few
stops, 30 miles round-trip. Meet
McLaren Lodge, GG Park, 9

AM. Bring lunch. Details: Bob,
824-7145.

In addition — Every Saturday
a Decide & Ride will leave from
the Freewheel Bicycle Shop,
1920 Hayes, S.F. near Ashburv
at 10 AM.

S.F. Hiking Club: Meets
Thursday, April 21 to plan May
hikes and camping trips. Those
desiring to attend should phone
647-3775. ■

Spring Carnival

For Kids and Parents

Puppetry, story telling and
arts and crafts will be presented
by the Lesbian/Gay Freedom
Day Committee in an afternoon
for children at the Valencia Rose.
Clowns and characters provide
music and theatre April 23, 1-4
PM. Open to children, parents,
and friends. Wear funny
costumes. For more information
about attending or performing,
call Jim 552-1445 or Johnny,
861-7943. ■

G.S.L. UPDATE

Favorites Prevail!

TOM VINDEED

Over 500 fans turned out for
the first full slate of games in the
GSL’s 1983 season.

As expected, favorites won
rather easily, but two teams
barely avoided being upset.

The Ambush did just that to
the Stables’ Thundering Herd as
they jumped off to a quick 7-0
first inning lead and went on to
record a 10-1 win. The silver &
black were led by Neal Christie,
Henry Ford, and “Sarge” Lucin-
ski. Sam “The Man’’ Migliac-
cio pitched a fine 7-hitter. One
special attraction in this game
was Sarge’s big following. Real
nice, Joe.

The Phone Booth gave highly
regarded Trax a run for its
money as the Haight Street boys
held on for a hard-fought 8-7 win
in extra innings. The other
Haight Street team, two-time
defending GSL champion
DeLuxe, shocked everyone by
holding the heavily favored Club
21 to a 12-12 tie. This game will
be completed at a later date.
John Montanzz has done an out¬
standing job with his club.

The Kokpit, led by Ed Dones
grand slam home run, highlight¬
ed the “Pits” 14-2 victory over
the Joey Loza coached Rawhide
II. Moby Dick defeated the
GSL Rookies 20-0 and even in

The Pendulum’s Mike Gray, slug¬
ging them out at the GSL opening
game. (Photo: Rink)

defeat the Rookies proved them¬
selves to be a class act as they
played and partied hard during
and after the game.

“The Fighting Waitresses” of
the Cafe San Marcos came out
swinging and whipped John
David’s Googie’s crew 16-1.
There were no individual stars in
this one, just an all ’round team
effort on the Cafe’s part.

This Sunday the games will be
played at everybody’s favorite
field, Balboa Park, Ocean & San
Jose Avenues. ■

and at the show. 621-5619.

The GSL Trophy wore a Pendulum hat at the opening game — they won
the trophy last season, and displayed the trophy on their bench during the
game. (Photo: Rink)

The Olympic Soccer Team practices at Collingwood Playground each Satur¬
day from 10 AM to 12. They are looking for more players. (Photo: Rink)

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KARL STEWART

LOVE AMONG
THE NEEDLES

We are so rich here South of
Market. There is so much to be
entertained by. This week saw
three super performances by In¬
ternational Club Star Gwen
Jonae, the opening of C.D. Ar¬
nold’s new play King of the
Crystal Palace, and untold she¬
nanigans during the Eagle’s
week-long anniversary cele¬
bration.

Theatre Rhino’s openings are
always sparkling. This week
So/M was treated to another of
C.D. Arnold’s psycho-dramas.
King of the Crystal Palace is
a collision of personalities, tak¬
ing place in a Victorian house¬
hold somewhere on our home
turf So/M. The play got off to
a slow, screechy start, but once
things (and the actors) calmed
down, the play really warmed
up. Seth (played by Chuck Solo¬
mon, who also directed the
show) reveals his twisted version
of reality through the writing of
a play of his own. The work is
his passage from madness to
sanity. The object of his madness
is his lover Rob (Steven Patter¬
son). Rob is working his way
from being King of the Crystal
Palace (a So/M bathhouse) to a
wracked drug addict. Simon (J.
Carlton Powers) is a calm, cool¬
ly portrayed dark angel, seduc¬
ing Leatherman Rob into the pit.

We are drawn into this bizarre
maze of relationships and reali¬
ties. One person enters to show
us the route. Thomas-Mark’s
portrayal of Rocky was the light
which lent sparkle and a much-
needed third dimension to what

was a two-dimensional and very
nervous cast. All players re¬
sponded to this light which gave
Arnold’s philosophic ending lots
of support. I’d like to see it
again. It’s one of those plays
which you feel you must see sev¬
eral times to fully appreciate.

THE EAGLE HAS
CRASHED AND . . .

After a solid week of hardy
party, the Eagle staff and crew
I m sure are hibernating today,
still. It began with the opening
of JC’s new Biker Bar Sunday
eve for the MC’s and followed up
with the public opening on Mon¬
day. Tuesday the birds were
perched on the roof for the first
of the Eagle Leather Contests.
The Constantines’ Jan Durban
and the aging but ever-lovely
Alan Selby of Mr. S Products
and John Miller solemnly sat in
judgment of the Eyries of Eagle
hopefuls. The worthy winner
was bearded daddy Brian. Oh,
will they love him in Chicago!
The Eagle’s own Michael Bow¬
man nested in second place, with
Clay in third. There were many
prizes and cash for each. Wed¬
nesday was very busy every¬
where, but the Eagle opened the
official Anniversary Party with
pins marking the occasion and
free drinks for those who wore a
coveted 1st year pin. Madness
accelerated a bit Thursday with
more pins and mountains of
food. Friday was JC’s birthday
as well, so the staff threw him a
little surprise party including a
four-tier cake and loads of
goodies. The main theme of the
gifts, of course, was . . . Eagles.

However, Vem Stewart ordered a
214-foot chained and cumming
cock and balls made out of flesh-
colored carnations. It won my
vote for the most outrageous
present. The huge phallus was
the creation of Cy’s Flowers, at
21st and Mission. Don Davis of
Griff’s in L.A. (one of JC’s
countless ex’s) and famed Com¬
pass columnist Suzy Parker join¬
ed us to aid and spur things on.
Jay Levine and Bob Damron,
the Eagle’s owner, rewarded
manager JC with a 1983 Lincoln
Towncar. I’d say he deserved it.
He produced an estimated gross
of 1 1/2 million dollars for Jay and
Bob last year.

The partying went on and on.
Saturday the Constantines cele¬
brated their 16th with an after¬
noon cocktail luncheon/beer
bust. Small crowd, but as the
afternoon warmed up JC began
to hold court with Suzy and DD
in the Biker Bar. Plying us all
with bizarre concoctions. The
bartenders each six-packed our
L.A. guests. Suzy was a pretty
sight by 9 PM. Fortunately
Drummer’s new Art Director,
Dirk Dykstra, rescued me. We’ve
even been seeing a lot of Drum¬
mer’s owner Mario and John
Embry as of late, speaking of
sleazy rags.

Sunday crowned the week
with The Golden Gate Troopers
Leather Garden Party. It was
complete with chamber music
by the Golden Gate Brass sex¬
tette (Sex because Febe’s Skip is
the lead trumpeter. He knows
how to blow, believe me.) The
concept was entirely John Clif¬
ton’s say GGT members and
friends.

Not to be mislayed, JC
promptly took off for L.A. on
Monday for a rest.

KNIGHT WATCH

Another fine and kind man
has succumbed to AIDS. For¬
mer president of The Coits Keith
Wayde died last Saturday. Keith
was the force behind the 1808
Club and was one of the first
owner/operators to play in his
own club, lending validation to
our fun. Keith also built The
Academy but fell ill before it
opened. He was one of the dizzi¬
est, kindest, and sweetest men I
had the privilege to know and do
business with.

Speaking of dead and dying.
They warned me. All of them.
But I wouldn’t listen. David
said, “He’ll start a project but
never allow you to finish.” My
little Cabaret at the Endup has
been laid to rest by owner A1
Hanken. I think So/M needs a
good center for live club and
cabaret and I’ll continue to pur¬
sue that goal elsewhere, to please
the music lovers on my beat. I’ll
let you know.

Larry and Sam and the boys
had a soft, sweet wake for Brig
owner Hank Diethelm, who was
felled by the hand of an alleged
speed freak last week. The Sun¬
day afternoon crowd was filled
with admirers of Hank and his
civic and So/M work.

KNIGHT NOTES

The CMC’s 20th Anniversary
will be marked Saturday evening
at California Hall, with tix at
$10. You are in for a star-studded
cast of our local cabaret talent:
Pam Brooks, Don Johnson,
Joseph Denny, and Steve Inger,
to name a few. We will also be
entertained by the S.F. Tap

(Continued on next page)

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KNIGHTS

(Continued from previous page)
Troupe and the Hayward Raw
Rahs. Lurch and Liberace as
well as Sable and the Clown
complete a full evening of fun,
food, and sleaze. Prez Choux
tells me that Jimmy Gilman and
The Sutter’s Mill Keeper Gary
Noss have joined CMC as pro-
spectives.

The Cheaters’Rebate Party is
Sunday at Febe’s. Seven bucks
brings well drinks and beer, fun
and food, and a $5 rebate on
their Memorial Day Run this
year.

The ICF will bring new
meaning to the word “Camp”
with this year’s Casualty Capers,
titled On The Town (OTT)
April 30, also at California Hall.
Tickets are available at Trax, the
Men’s Room, the New Bell,
Febe’s, the S.F. Eagle, the Water¬
ing Hole, and the Nothing
Special.

Gwen Jonae’s appearances at
The Endup and Oasis were su¬
perb. Not only is she generous
and genuine, but she can take
the smallest crowd and create
joy. I ’ll have a full interview with
this talented lady next week. The
Oasis Tea Dance may be the
place to spend Sunday afternoon
from now on. The only thing
standing in its way sometimes is
Terry Thompson’s fleet of dere¬
lict cars. Ask Oasis manager
Steven Blair what that means.

The Hothouse held their first
Leather contest Thursday eve
with hunky George taking top
position, so to speak.

Mr. S is opening a franchise
in Denver, we hear. Wayne
Haskle is the owner. Denver
needs a good leather maker since
JJ’s went under. Alan is also
marketing “Frisco,” a water
soluble lubricant. It had to hap¬
pen; didn’t it?

Febe’s is the place where a lot
of leather birthdays are celebrat¬
ed. Roger was greeted with cake
and drinks and a live country
band called Nostalgia. Fun,
foot-stompin’ fun.

Former SFGDI George Binns
will pack up his art studio and
move to a golden nest in Hawaii
with his native philosopher —
buddy Robin Lau. George’s
highly manipulated xerox art
will be featured in the center of
The Advocate’s September 9
issue.

Jerry Semas and his crew of
crazies recreated the Titanic and
1912 with a costume party at
their 17th Street digs. The occa¬
sion was complete with port¬
holes, deck of the ship, and vic¬
tims. Among the survivors were
porn star Ron Pierson, glorious
Jockstrap Contest winner John,
and Mike Hippier was on duty.
Icebergs, anyone?

The Constantines will chris¬
ten the new Biker Bar with its
first open meeting this month.
Watch the calendar . . . Jason
Falk and John Overall have re¬
surfaced. When asked, “What
provoked radio silence?” John
pointed to Roger, who wore an
antique cast iron slave collar
with a huge Sears lock. Quiet
evenings at home are in vogue
. . . Tora is organizing an old-
fashioned GDI run to Monterey
for May 30. All of the leather
community, both men and
women, is invited. DTBA soon.

■

K. Steiv'art

Karl’s Calendar

Thursday, 4/21: Fade to Brown.
Photos by H. Grant; Moby Dick,
reception 6-9pm.

Mr. Hothouse Finals. Hothouse,
10pm; lockers $4; winner goes to Mr.
Int’l Leather Contest in Chicago.
Sutter’s Mill Takes Over The Mint.
Cocktail hour celebration; Saturday &
Sunday brunches served.

Friday, 4/22: Birthday. Queen
Mother Michael Gill; Febe’s, 9pm.
Constantines’ Open Meeting. Biker
Bar, SF Eagle, 8:30pm.

Rawhide Grand Opening. Rawhide,
7th St. at Folsom; Western Dancing,
8pm.

Saturday, 4/23: CMC 20th Anniver¬
sary Gala. California Hall, 8pm., $10;
featuring cabaret stars Pam Brooks,

Joseph Denny, Steve Inger, and Don
Johnson; no host bar, full buffet, and
sleaze.

Birthday. James Ayer; Stables, 8pm.

Sunday, 4/24: Oasis Tea Dance.
Oasis, 2pm (surprise entertainment?).
Cheaters’ Rebate Party. Febe’s,
2-5pm, $7; includes well, beer, and
food; $5 rebate on Memorial Day Run.
Birthday. Tom Weber; Febe’s, 9pm.
Military Beer Bust. SF Eagle, 3-6pm;
free beer with uniform.

Tribute to CMC’s 20th. Arena,
2pm-2am; 2 for 1 drinks with ticket
stubs.

Monday, 4/25: Birthday. Frank
Benoit; Febe’s, 8pm.

Tuesday, 4/26: Mr. Eagle Leather
Contest. SF Eagle, 9pm.

Wednesday, 4/27: Arena 5th Anni¬
versary. 7pm; drink specials if you
wear any Arena shirt; first 200 patrons
receive special anniversary 9hirt; hors
d’oeuvres, drawing, fun.

Birthday. Jim Conner; Febe’s, 8pm.
Art Show. Stables, 8-1 lpm.

Brig Leather Contest. Brig, 10pm
check-in.

Thursday, 4/28: Arena 5th Anni¬
versary. 7-9pm, full buffet, drawings;
11pm, big summer vacation drawing.

Saturday, 4/30: On The Town. ICF’s
benefit variety show. California Hall,
7pm; no host bar.

Sunday, 5/1: Birthday. Doug Ander¬
son (owner of Febe’s); Febe’s, 5pm.
Oedipus MC (L.A.) Beer Bust. SF
Eagle, 3-6pm.

An exhibit of new photographs by Nina Glaser, Nudes, inaugurates the new Nathan Hart Gallery
at 437 Hayes. The works are nude studies of men, women, and children, “with a humorous streak,” says
the photographer. The exhibit continues through May 30. ■

BAY AREA REPORTER APRIL 21, 1983 PAGE 30

SWEETLIPS SEZ

All Three Planked

DICK WALTERS

I’d like to welcome home
Seaman Russ after his trip at sea
for the past six and a half
months . . . guess you went to
about every port in Europe dur¬
ing that time.

On Monday 25 there will be a
27th (?) birthday party for
Chuckles at the Red Eye Saloon
starting at 7 PM. Guess you’ll
have to find someone younger
now, Nicky. But come on down
and join in the festivities.

Tuesday evenings at Googie’s
is the night that Cristal and Lus¬
cious Lorelei and yours truly
hold forth on the plank with
“dish sessions” of days and years
gone by, so drop in and have
some fun.

No, I was not at Savages the
Thursday it was raided. I have
changed my schedule there so as

Rene (The Gate) took a trip, and
I do mean a trip, to the Russian
River . . . had a few cocktails
with Gary (Orchid) McDonald
at Fife’s and met some truly
beautiful people there . . . then
went over to the Triple R Resort.
As you wank through the
wrought iron gates you find
beautiful grounds. From the
atrium foyer one is led into a full
liquor bar where you drink and
on chilly evenings are warmed by
a large lava rock fireplace. The
dining room only serves dinner
now but will soon be open for all
meals daily. It has large round
oak tables, a stained glass win¬
dow, and gorgeous tiffany lamps
hanging everywhere. Dinners, if
you can believe this, start at
$3.99. Even a porterhouse steak
is only $7.99. They have great
cabins, heated pool, sauna, hot

Gay Is Glamor. Despite the presence of tenor supreme Placido Domingo
at the showing of Franco Zeffirelli’s lavish film of LA TRAVIATA, the Film
Festival opening was not-the social event of the season. It took Gilbert Baker
(IJand escort Morgan Ellis to inject a sense of occasion into the evening with
their specially created pink silk evening attire. (Photo: R. Pruzan)

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not to run into Big Bird and
Marcus. They eat more than
anyone else and I do think the
Savages men should be treated
to something good at other times
. . . see ya all there.

Yes, there are still some tickets
available for the Closet Ball put
on by Robert Michael Produc¬
tions . . . call 434-3254. Have
you seen the lovely jackets that
were given to the members of the
Closet Ball last Sunday at the
Kokpit? Truly very nice, but I
still have my jacket from the old
Royal Palace . . . remember that
bar?

tub, and a very relaxing atmo¬
sphere and it’s only two blocks
from downtown and all of the ac¬
tion including the Rainbow Cat¬
tle Co., which is always very
packed. Owners of the Triple R
Resort call it their Land-locked
Loveboat and both Rudy and
Marvin are very gracious hosts,
so if you are interested kindly call
and make reservations well in
advance - (707) 869-0691 - and
tell them that you read about it
here. I can’t wait to go and spend
a few days there just relaxing
. . . besides, they do pour a great
drink.

If you are into New Wave,
Graffiti (formerly Devil’s Herd)
out on Valencia Street is the
place to go, right across from the
popular Fickle Fox.

Every Tuesday the Endup
with a $3 door charge has well
drinks, beer and wine for only 25
cents . . . now you can’t beat
those prices, especially with
great sounds by R. Zepeda play¬
ing the night away . . . isn’t that
right, Lonnie?

Last Thursday yours truly, A1
(Googie’s), Andy (Kokpit), and

Images on Pine Street still has
the one and only Bill Wright on
the plank along with Richard
and they are getting a nice group
of drinking people there ... so
drop in some day or night and
say hi . . . they also open at 6
AM on Saturdays and Sundays.

Don’t forget the party for Art
York at the Ram’s Head tonight
— Shirley Brussard is doing a
great spaghetti feed — happy
57th, Art! ■

New Gay Poetry

Bay Area Lesbian poet Kitty
Tsui and Gay poet Aaron Shurin
will read from their brand new
collections of poetry April 27 at
the Network Coffeehouse.

The Network Coffeehouse is
an informal space at 1329
Seventh Avenue (Between Irving
and Judah). The program
begins at 8 PM. A donation will
be taken. ■

Fruit Punch, KPFA FM 94’s
Gay radio show, is broadcast at
10 PM each Wednesday. On
April 27 playwrights Bob
Chesley, Dan Turner and Brud
Schuette discuss the life and
work of the late Tennessee
Williams with emphasis on the
trials and joys of his final years.

Singer/songwriters Ron Rom-
anovsky and Paul Phillips will
appear at the Valencia Rose
Cafe, 766 Valencia Street, San
Francisco, on Friday, April 22
with Tom Ammiano and Friday,
April 29 with Danny Williams.
Both shows will start at 10:30
and admission is $4. ■

Planning a trip out of the country? Seasoned Gay travelers always carry the
Spartacus International Gay Guide.

Spartacus tells you everything you need to know about bars, restaurants, cruise
spots, baths, emergency services and local customs.

From Frankfort to French Guyana, from Sydney to Singapore, Spartacus tells all
— in four languages. Now you know why it’s considered the last word.

Please rush me the 1982 edition of the Spartacus International Gay Guide. I am
enclosing $19.95 for each copy (includes applicable taxes and handling).

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Mail to: Bay Area Reporter, 1528 15th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

BAY AREA REPORTER APRIL 21. 1983 PAGE 31

Desire and Despair

(Continued from page 20)

ed this strain, this conflict be¬
tween her love for women — her
“dyke phase” and the “sad-faced
Doris” — and her love for the
beauty of men. “To be as physi¬
cally strong as they are ... To
drink, and even smoke, without
this heavy burden of guilt and
secrecy and shame and distance
from other women.” To drink
and smoke and dance and fuck
are the signposts of Maryse’s
revolution, and one of the things
she must cope with is the “puri¬
tanical looking-on of women,”
their contention that it is the lack
of restraint on the part of the
gringas that calls down Mexico’s
macho wrath. Restraint is
“boredom.” It is Maryse’s right
as a human being to explore her
desire without restraint, her duty
as a feminist to record it in detail,
her lot as a writer to suffer the
conflict. “I want them all (men)
and each one is insufficient.
Where I acquired this masculine
mentality I haven’t the vaguest
idea.”

So Maryse left New York to
investigate her “masculine men¬
tality,” this driven animus of
hers. Why she chose repressive,
Catholic Mexico for the site of
her emotional excavations is a
good question, but then one
wonders where could a woman
go to experiment with complete
sexual license. Homosexuals
have San Francisco and Amster¬
dam, pederasts can try Turkey,
but the only avenue I can think
of that society offers women sex¬
ual investigators is prostitution,
and prostitution, though com¬
patible with some tempera¬
ments, is not freedom. Though
she is “hooked on Mexican
looks,” Maryse is not so captive
or entranced that her eye loses its
cold, feminist intensity. “He was
in and out in forty-five seconds,
his teeth clamped shut all the
time,” she writes of one manly
lover of women, and of another:
“Carlos did not know from the
clit either and so I was left in a
condition of absolute desire.”
Maryse is on a wheel of fire.
“The women didn’t help. Yet
another Canadian gave me the
same rap on how it’s women
spoil it for women in Mexico.”
And the men help less. In a
small essay contained in one let¬

ter, Maryse finds the same image
for the male world that Susan
Griffith also discovered: “I
realized that Mundo Silencioso
(The Silent World, the name of
a yacht) stood for men’s feelings
about women, nonexistent, their
concealed contempt for us and
how silent their world is to us
. . . How men hate the sexual in
women. How incredibly oppress¬
ed women are, for surely they all
want exactly what I want and
men want and they are crucified
for it.” The silence makes
Maryse more determined. “I
will not be restrained tonight if
he doesn’t show,” she writes, and
this repeated theme is countered
by a need to be respectable, to
“barnacle myself onto a woman
and play by her rules” (because
“women traveling alone in Mex¬
ico have no class”). To be re¬
strained and respectable or to be
a “whore” and have fun — this
is the dilemma Maryse, in the
end, failed to resolve. Pulled in
two, she wrote in despair: “Oh
Lord, for a new feminism! A
sluttish, heterosexual one. One
without virtue. But with plea¬
sure and freedom and power and
evil as its asuntos. Power and
pleasure ...”

I am not able at all to convey
the rich and irritating reading
experience these letters make.
Rich because we are in the pres¬
ence of a passionate woman of
extraordinary intelligence in the
very process of honing her writ¬
ing; and irritating because the
repeated love affairs become
rosaries of rejection, the concern
with her looks and weight an an¬
noying litany of vanity. One isn’t
surprised to read that Edith
never answered Maryse’s letters,
or that Maryse was asked to
leave a party at a friend’s in New
York because of her abrasive be¬
havior. One imagines Maryse, at
her worst, fitting the description
Betty Dodson used to describe
herself before her sexual awak¬
ening — “an egomaniac with an
inferiority complex.”

M s. Dodson’s Selflove and
Orgasm is easier to love
than Maryse Holder; she is
also easier to read. Where
Maryse is self-critical, Dodson
is self-accepting; where Maryse
is complex, Dodson seems sim¬

ple. I don’t mean “simple” here
in its meaning as “easy” or
“facile.” I mean it as in the
sentence, “It is simple to choose
health over disease, life over
death.”

Betty started out from much
the same cultural point of view
as Maryse. Her fantasies were
framed by her “female pornog¬
raphy, True Romance, and
Vogue.” “The favorite fantasy I
used for teenage masturbation,”
she recalls, “was ‘My Wedding
Night.' ” (It would be instructive
as well as amusing to ask a few
heterosexual men — especially
young, unmarried ones — to
project their fantasies of “My
Wedding Night.”) Her relations
with herself, her fantasy life, her
masturbation, took a backseat to
a very determined romantic
ideal, Love’s Redemptive Quali¬
ties. Betty had ‘’super romantic

Self-abuse can be :
come self-love.

monogamous love affairs” which
“lasted about two years,” and
whose end was always “devastat¬
ing.” “I was hooked on my be¬
loved ... At the end of each af¬
fair I nearly wiped myself out
with sorrow, regret, despair, or
rage. Between lovers, orgasms
from masturbation probably
kept me from committing
suicide.”

When love and marriage came
at 29, (“just in time to escape the
horrible fate of going over the hill
alone”) it did not redeem much.
Not only were there no bells,
there was no sex. Love could not
keep it up for twelve months. “In
the second year, our marital sex
was down to once a month.
When it did happen, my hus¬
band would come too fast, and
I wouldn’t come at all. We were
both embarrassed, depressed,
and silent.” We have the equa¬
tion again: sex and silence, peo¬
ple and silence, pornography
and silence, el mundo silencioso,
shame, guilt, secrets, silence. All
the sexual talk, the sexual writ¬
ing, the sexual therapy, the sex¬
ual revolution reduced to bibble-
babble because we cannot talk
straight to each other. Nothing.
Silence. This is a personal trag¬
edy, “desire too difficult to tell
from despair,” and because of
the vast numbers who suffer, it
is a political tragedy. The 'm-
barrassed silence between ^ a-

ples, partners, friends, and rela¬
tives hides cryptic masturbation,
secret assignations, feigned or¬
gasms. Despair becomes deceit,
and we have moved into the
realm of bad faith, bad karma,
and “paying dues.” “Once we
fake it,” Dodson writes of her ex¬
perience with a woman who had
been nonorgasmic during six
years of marriage, “we are per¬
sonally trapped, and we perpe¬
trate the biggest sexual lie of all.”
Maryse Holder is just as uncom¬
promising and searingly suc¬
cinct: “Lies,” she writes, “pol¬
lute love.”

Betty Dodson did not go to
Mexico. She found her freedom
and power and pleasure through
an exhaustive investigation into
sexuality by herself, with a male
lover, with several women lovers,
as a painter, and as the leader of
consciousness-raising groups
that evolved into body-sex work¬
shops aimed at making women
orgasmic, happy, and indepen¬
dent. “I began to understand,”
she records, “how our whole
anti-sexual social system repress¬
es us. We couldn’t even touch our
own bodies for sexual gratifica¬
tion without feeling sick or guil¬
ty. That realization made me so
angry that I banished sexual
guilt from my mind.” Simple. All
you have to do is do it. Amazing¬
ly, Betty Dodson seems to have
succeeded. She ingenuously
writes: “One night after I did the
masturbation demonstration, a
rather timid woman said she
would like to see a real climax
someday. Spontaneously, Sheila
and I plugged in our vibrators
and masturbated all the way to
orgasm.”

How do you do it, Betty Dod¬
son? Plug me in. There was no
lack of “puritanical lookers-on.”
For a show at a Madison Avenue
gallery, Betty painted “four life-
sized classical nudes, two males
and two females, all joyfully
masturbating to orgasm . . . All
hell broke loose. The director
refused to hang the four nudes
as planned, so I threatened to
pull out the entire show.” The
compromise was to hang two
paintings. Hundreds of people
went to see the show to see the
painting of the two “Jacking and
Jilling off.”

Pornography became an es¬
sential element in Dodson’s sex¬
ual awakening. For years she had
thought that her genitals were
malformed, assymetrical, with

excrescences of flesh on the outer
labia hideously similar to
chicken wattles. When Grant,
her male friend, wanted to enjoy
the sight of her crotch, she con¬
fessed her fear of deformity.
Grant looked and ran off to his
closet to get a stack of soft-core
“split beaver” magazines.
Betty’s initial thought was “how
degrading it must be for those
poor women to pose in garter
belts and black net stockings —
to expose themselves like that.
Nonetheless, I began looking at
the photographs, and sure
enough, there was a vagina just
like mine, and another, and an¬
other ... By the time we had
gone through several magazines
together, I knew what women’s
genitals looked like. What a re¬
lief ... Just thirty minutes of
viewing pornography had made
me ‘cunt positive’ and dramati¬
cally changed my life.” I hesitate
to write, dear reader, that one
has the choice of being cunt posi¬
tive or a positive cunt.

"Heterosexuality
is a strain on femi¬
nism."

— Maryse Holder

Fish might have to swim and
birds might have to fly, but seals,
we learn on PBS, have to be
taught how to swim in a process
that looks anything but comfort¬
able, and the very birdies in the
trees have to learn their song. If
we do what comes natur’ly,
Betty Dodson reminds us, we
will be psychologically armored,
neurotic messes with love lives so
curtailed that “2V£ minutes of
thrusting after penetration” will
pass for love and sexual inter¬
course. I cannot call pornogra¬
phy a satisfying sexual educa¬
tion, but until we live in a soci¬
ety that accepts nudity and sexu¬
ality, it is the only way some peo¬
ple can fulfill their voyeuristic
needs — a simple desire, to see
another’s genitals. Up front.
With it all hanging out. Open.
A glimpse of . . .I’ll let Maryse
Holder finish: “There was, too,
a final glimpse of his upper tor¬
so, which will have to last me my
life. It seared me sober with its
beauty.” H

R. Bluestein

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Call Gene Earl, (415) 543-2256.

• EB

Summer House-sit or Sublet
2 professional males 34 & 44 de¬
sire furnished S.F. location June,
July & August while attending
summer seminar. Refs. 552-2511
E16

BUSINESS

OPPORTUNITIES

Business Investment Offer
Low risk/high return. Call
861-4581 11am-12pm/6-8pm E16

FRENCH DESIGNER

seeks partner for investment. Very
exp in high fashion, international
clothes. Call Emilio 435-4799,
731-5059 Eie

CLUBS &

ORGANIZATIONS

SHORT MEM!

Meet other Short Men
& Men who like Short Guys.
Bulletin $2.00
SHORT-STOP
P.O. Box 421055
San Francisco, CA 94142

FINANCIAL

SERVICES

FINANCIAL

PROBLEMS?

FREE INITIAL CONSULTATION
WITH EXPERIENCED ATTORNEY

Walter R. Nelson 35S-0583

BODY

SERVICES

ELECTROLYSIS

Permanent hair removal
for men and women.

Noe Valley office.

Dennis N. Raith, R.E.
550-0422

Allen Barnes

Haircutting/Massage
Inflation Fighting
Price Reduction
Style Cut w/shp
was $18 now $12
Haircut $10
On Union Square
323 Geary St., Rm. 404
986-1588

RESUMES Ben 626-1245 E 20

GYM INSTR. 881-9612 E 20

LEATHER WORKERS

Apply Image Leather, 2199 Market.
Exp only need apply. Ei 8

Manager for retail sportswear. Call
673-7113 from Noon to 3PM,
Mon-Fri. E16

Sales clerk for New Wave clothing
store. Exp only. Call 673-7113 from
Noon to 3PM, Mon-Fri. E16

621-JOBS

GAY EMPLOYMENT SERVICE

E16

SF Gay bar/disco seeks exp promo
person. Must relate to diverse
1 groups w/bdgt mgmt exp. Write to
PO Box 1528, SF, CA 94101 Eie

FULL LINE OF BODY
JEWELRY & PIERCING SERVICES

TAYLOR

OF

SAN FRANCISCO

3221 20TH STREET

Lymphatic Work
Stress Reduction
Professional Office.
864-9931 ext. 412

8-10 p.m. daily

Don or Jim

Marc

Inflation-fighter Perm -
$30 complete

Cut and bio - Men and Women
Men's short cut - $10

7hO Market at Grant
Rm. 401-f>, Phelan Bldg.

3f>2 - S19B
Tues-Sat

HYPNOSIS

CAN HELP YOU

Smoking Too Much? Overweight?
Sexual/Relationship Problems?

Daniel M. Pasutti,

Cert. Hypnotherapist. Ph D., M.F.C.C.

431-8361

COUNSELOR-THERAPIST

CONSULTANT

Dealing with problems pertinent
to Gay relationships and the
Gay lifestyle

Edgar Krout, MA, MFCC
_ 648-7138 _

I like scat. Al. 861-0315 E17

LONDON HOLIDAY?

Yank, own home^.welcomes active
studs on vacation. Write orders,
pix. 38 Gawber St., London E2,
U.K. e—16

GROW YOUR PENIS

via self-hypnosis and diet. Black
counselor w/dinical license & hyp¬
nosis cert, help impotence, other
problems.

Call Bookmon, (415) 349-4928

Mo Discrimination!

The Connecter

The Bay Area’s Exciting
New Gay Play Line

(415) 346-8747

Shh! S.F.'s Best Kept Secret! VCR
owners call 986-2198 (24-hour
recording). E16

Yng slim very attr W/M seeks slim
attr BJ buddies 18 to 30. Call Dale
552-8369 days, WS & light SM
okay. E16

EAST BAY

Attrctv GWM, 30s, Gr actv, Ikng
for occsnl noontime action in Brkly.
You shd be GWM, 20-35, have
good body and a place to go. Write
J. Collins, 1098 Page, SF 94117.
Photo gets same. Ei6

Morning hard-ons serviced. Relief
is as near as your phone. AM only
482-1653 East Bay - no phone J/0.

E16

FIREMEN AND COPS

Unload your hot dicks up my ass.
Bart, 626-6040. E 16

M0NA5TIC EnVIROHMEMT

ORDER OF IBIS

( 415 ) 543-3233

New Gay. Bar

DICK’S

AT THE BEACH

Corner Judah & La Playa

Open Nightly, Weekends
’til 2 AM

HOLISTIC

HYPNOSIS

Free consultation 885-4752 7 dys

ACUPUNCTURE

• Traditional Acupuncture

• Needleless Acupuncture

SPECIALIZING IN
FACIAL HEJl'VENATION

Adrienne Kernan, RN, CA
285-1544

Wanted: Young Latino, Asian or
blonde for houseboy/masseur.
Steve 626-1848 E17

BLACK/WHITE PARTNERS

is-not a one night dating service
but an introduction service
for Gay men interested in finding
a permanent relationship.

526-3334

BAY AREA REPORTER APRIL 21. 1983 PAGE 33

BAY AREA REPORTER CLASSIFIEDS

Psychic Development I
Psychic Healing I
Past Life Regression
Therapy I

Dream Analysis and
Astral Projection
Meditation Dynamics I

Six-Week Courses in Mind,
Body and Spirit Development
Classes begin: April 25th
Reserve Now: 821-3897
Instructor: Dennis D. Black, M.H.

Mutual massage, light spanking.
Ray, 756-3208. E 16

CHIROPRACTIC

An Alternative Medicine
Treating the Cause
Rather Than the Symptom

DR. RICK PETTIT
(415) 552-7744 E16

Gay Travel Network!

Now accepting new host applica¬
tions for bed and breakfast clien¬
tele. Turn a spare bedroom into
some extra income and meet in¬
teresting new people. Discreet, not
a dating service. 552-0960,
10-7pm, Tues. thru Fri. Ask for
Tom. Ei6

WANNA BE HUMILIATED?
WANNA BE
POKED AND PRODDED
IN FRONT OF OTHERS?

Best of all, wanna win some cash?
Mr. Marcus wants you for his Slave
Auctions at Savages. Apply in person
at Savages, 220 Jones Street.

DO IT NOW!

NEED $$$?

PLAY FOR PAY!

Handsome Dad, a photo collector,
seeks a small smoothie, with che¬
rubic cheeks, for over-the-knee
spanking pix. You get $25 ea. rl. I
shoot plus extra $$$ if you react
expressively to the action. Min.
pay: $100. You must be small (not
more than 5'6"), slim-waisted, and
smooth all over. A gay young man
is preferred but a punk is okay if you
otherwise meet my specs. Quali¬
fied only, write: Geo. Johnson, P.O.
Box 605, Capitola, CA 95010

Self Improvement

THROUGH

HYPNOSIS

hieve Goals •

jit smoking • Dennis D. Black

)se Weight • Certified Hypnotist

ife Regression (415) 821-3897

ST. PRIAPUS
GAY RESCUE MISSION

Provides: emergency shelter, food, coun¬
seling. Needs: $$, food, bedding, jobs, vol¬
unteers. ST. PRIAPUS CHURCH. Diony¬
sian Phallic worship Wed., Thurs, 2PM,
Fri., Sat., 10PM. NEWSLETTER Christian
eroticism, phallic art. Doetrv. Send $1 for
sample. 583 Grove, SF 94102; 431-2188.
SEX CAN DESTROY EVIL.

COCKFIGHTS

Wrestlers & Cockfighters
Join the West Coast's hottest
grapplers and cockfighters in the
wildest, sweatiest, roughest
man-to-man action to hit this
town. Apply at SAVAGES,
220 Jones, or call 673-3383
to register.

PRIZE MONEY

MASSAGE

Professional

Healing Massage

Gentle, Strong
Ten Years Experience
LET YOURSELF LIVE!
474-4146 24 hr Iv message

Outcalls: sensual massage by 24
yr, 6 ft, 170 lb stud. Varcus
776-3064_E16

Massage $20 • Enemas $15
Todd 753-3248 E16

75 min. sensual massage by
gdlkng bodybuilder. High repeats.
$35/40. Steve 861-3756 Ei6

Robert
26, 160#

Hot Buns
Good Massage
35 hr, 665-4164 Ei6

My job is to give you the best
massage you've ever had. Lloyd
567-2345 E16

Balancing massage, 2 yr SF, 25
in/40 out, Frank 751-3281 E16

Outcalls: Firm, sensuous, oil mas¬
sage by 5'11", 150 lb, 36, GWM.
Jimmy 474-8911 E 16

S&M

Phone Sex
346-8747

Certified Massage
Practitioner

offering sensual safe massage

Swedish - Shiatsu - Polarity
Give yourself some TLC.

558-8006 - Outcalls Only

Keys to duration. A sexual
revue. Colon therapy,
muscular control, memo¬
rable, decorative oral and
anal fare. Lithe hung’ky
tutors. 864-8597.

Soothing Esalen Massage
Relaxation Realized
$ 20/in Brian 864-4048 E 16

ROLFING FOR GAY MEN

Call Shimon Attie, MFCCI certified
rolfer at 922-3478 fo free consul¬
tation. Nonsexual. E17

Grant - yng .Michigan farm-grown
stud. Ex-Marine, hndsme, big dick-
ed, bb, hunky "human." Good
legit massage $40/50. 647-4704

E17

6'3", muscular, handsome, masc.
man! Slow, sensual massage! E.
Bay 547-3814 E17

Good, Nonsexual

MASSAGE

$15/HR

Charlie 387-3277

NO SEX

just hot, intense, strong

Swedish Massage

with heavy Reichian orientation

Big Jack, (415) 751-1468

1

J/Q Exhib. Tom 474-3147 E16

Need Your Buns Pumped

BLACK U/C XXHUNG

Rear expert. Bill 864-3162

FIRST AND FOREMOST

WITH S.F.’s HOTTEST

MALE MODELS

Handsome, masculine, well
endowed with all the
necessary attributes

COMPANIONS

“For a Perfect Evening”

Dinner, Dancing, Theater,
Sightseeing or Travel
Around Town,
Around the Bav
Around the Nation.

-SF. is more fun if you shore it

(415) 821-3457

6'4" - 165#
Hot

Healthy
Friendly
Safe Biker

DAVE (415) 665-6456

SUPER HUNG

DOMINANT, HOT STUD

exclusively: for those w.intinx ,i m<m
"PLAYGIRL DISCOVERY"

DEREK 928-4255

Le.ulinH S.in I r.inc isto Model* f sc orl

Hot Black Stud
6', 160, 9"/c, Alex 621-2327
E16

20 yr old leather/levi stud w/9",
butch haircut, handsome smooth-
shaven face and swimmer's body.
Versatile. Folsom playroom w/sling,
toys. Tommy 861-4443 E16

Head or Tails - You Call It!
BM, 6', 160, hung, nice build.
50in/60out Alex 621-2327 E16

FF Top Depth Specialist
9 yrs exp, small hands, slim arms,
diff size toys hose. In/out. Call
863-3586 E16

Sex + massage $50 921-4471E17
$50 hot pro w/7" 567-5244 E17

Sensual, satisfying massage by a
friendly, hunky expert. Tom
861-7372_Ei7

Shiatsu massage by personable
young man. IVi hrs. $25. Call Art,
586-1093. Certified. Ei9

Zolt 771-5198_E19

Super Massage • Athletic
Bodybuilder • Satisfying
Warm • John Allen • 775-2595
E20

MICHIGAN FACTORY WORKER

Rugged 5'10” 1601b. tanned topman
Clean shaven, dark haired, 9" endow¬
ment looking for HOT BUNS 24 HRS
$50in/$50out. No time clock. Serious
inquiries only. Leave name & no. for
immed. callback. Tom. Please be dis-
crete. 474-3147. _

MODELS
& ESCORTS

Nude guy always ready dwntwn
SF 398-2198 all hrs. Adam E16

$20 - Hot athlete. Hung nice.
• Bill 441-1054. Massage, etc.

E16

Handsome blonde, 21, slim,
smooth, hung, uncut. Call Steve
864-2546_E16

TENDER TUBESTEAK

Handsome, healthy, hung, 20 and
affectionate. Jim 431-6613. Ei6

You'll feel loved by this clean, cute,
versatile 19 year old. Hung and
fun! 8am-midnight. Mick
928-3071 E16

BISEXUAL MALE

MODEL

Tall - Handsome- Hung

474-8399

Older Men Welcome

GRANT

Michigan Farmboy
tan, bodybuilder, 26, 6', 180,
31" waist, beautiful big cock,
Ex-Navy man, I am a beautiful
man, vers., accommodating

647-4704

Will massage well! $40/50

Well-endowed Nebr. biker is back.
Ray 864-4807. $40/60. Best after
5:00 pm E16

Clint and/or Tom 861-4433 Ei6

Musc/hung Latin/smooth/28 Frank
861-1305. Nude pic $5. 109 Min¬
na St., Suite 592, S.F., CA 94105.
State over 21. E16

Blk & Beautiful - cocktails, dinner
theater - Thurs, Fri, Sat only. (707)
557-4307 Ei6

B.B. SUPERSTAR

53"c, 20"a, 32"w, 27"t, 8" cut,
6', leather fetishes toys
_Bill 863-1523 E16

$40 - Hot top, uncut, hung big,
rear fr expert. 431-9286 E16

HOT ORIENTAL

BODYBUILDER

28, 5'7", 180#, 48c, 17a, 32

JUN, (415) 668-8855

BABY BUNS

$50in/$70out MC/VISA

921-4471

BILL BOLT
(415) 864-3888

6'4" 220 lbs 50C 30 W
Muscles, Posing, Mirrors, Oil,
Body Worship, Jockstraps,
J/O, and Uniforms. No GR.

PAUL'S BACK!

Muscleman, 210 lbs., 5'9"

18 "a, 50 "c, 32 "w, hung big
863-1523_Eie

Muscular bottom for big meat
$70. Call bef 11am 821-3252 Ric

E16

6'3" FFA Top w/magic touch.
Xtraordinary playroom with slings,
toys! Into anything. X-rated limo.
Clint 861-4443_E 16

- Young Blond Man
26, 5'10", 160 lbs, 29" waist, 40"
chest, bl eyes, versatile, relaxed
and easygoing. Well hung.
552-0986 Paul E 16

SWEET & NASTY

Italian rough looks. $50. Tony
468-4984 E16

Hot Handsum J/O kid, 21, big wild
loads. $40 441-9724 Ben E16

Hot & Hung
Jim 863-2431 E17

HOT ITALIAN STUD

Handsome, well-muscled top,
hung thick, 6'2", 190 lbs, 29 yrs.
Call Angel, 621-8490, in/out. E18

HORSE - HUNG & THICK

Hairy Stud! FF + , 922-5398

EXTRA - EXTRA

Grant - Stud

All Around Jock:
Football - Basketball
HUNG 8V2"

Muscle Jock

26 yrs, 6', 180 lbs, 31" waist
Looking for good butts.

647-4704

"23" FIRST AD

Hung Hot Gladiator

Football Star, 6', 185#, 29" w
with meat for hungry throats,
muscular butt for big tongues.
Have buddy who is super hot
tight bottom as well.

$75 in or $100 out. Hot.
Call Steve before 11pm
(415) 861-3252

567-5244

V9”—ISO—29 60m/80out

MC/VISA

SUPERHUNG

Hot German Stud

Borg 861-8034

LIKE TO WATCH?

Tired of Porno?

Two hot blondes will perform
for you. Reasonable. In or Out.

Call 863-1303

GOLDEN BOY

Massage & Model Agency
All Nationalities Available
Applicants Needed

Alexander 626-1848

MOVING
& HAULING

E19

Hot Blond Fox $50 921-4471 E17

Leather master, handsome, built,
experienced. Equipped playroom.
Most any scene. Limits respected/
expanded. Novices ok. Don
584-9341_E20

Tall, dark hair, well built, classic
features, hung like horse, lush, un-
cut. Call Eric (408) 336-5077E23

6'4", 165#, hot, friendly, safe
biker. David, 24 hrs, 665-6456

E23

K&G TRUCKERS

HAULING • DELIVER r • RELOCATING
YARD - BASEMENT- ATTIC CLEANING

Kyle

86 1-5148
441-1461

Cary

c Moving Oil

SAN FRANCISCO
Moving & Hauling

Reasonable Negotiable Rates

285-9846

AKT TRUCKING
& MOVING

H Licensed & Insured
1948 Union St.
921-5333

BAY AREA REPORTER APRIL 21, 1983 PAGE 34

BAY AREA REPORTER CLASSIFIEDS

Lotus Van Mover, $15 one, $25
two men. 864-2206 E2i

k Granny’s^

Hauling to the dump SF $45 one
man hour $55 two includes dump
fee & gas. 864-2206 E2i

m*A

UPKEEP &
RENOVATION

1973

House Cleaning

Excellent Refs

David 584-5862 E16

MOVING & PACKING
SERVICES

431-4257

Master Charge & Visa
accepted.

HOUSECLEANER

SUPER REFS 731-2312

E17

Expert Piano Tuning

John Walters 921-2586

E17

NEED-A-BREAK?

HOUSECLEANING

Extremely Affordable

ESTIMATES - 641 - 9048 - JEFF

Floor Refinishing
Bob Dirsa 861-3241 #662

GAY MONEY TALKS.
ADVERTISE WEEKLY
INB.A.R. 861-5019

GEMINI

MOVERS

FIVE YEARS OF

CAREFUL

FRIENDLY

COURTEOUS

SERVICE

VIC
552-4425

JOHN

929-8609

SUPERLATIVE

HOUSECLEANING

responsible student, refs available;
Scott, 826-4456 E17

CUSTOM UPHOLSTERING
Expert Work - Budget Prices
References - Dave 931-3855

E18

REMODELING

Carpentry • Plumbing
Electrical

Tony Volpe Comstructiom

General Contractor'5 License tt 437581

550-7930

Hesselbarth

Drapery - Upholstering
Custom Fabrics

8-5M-S 563-3957

KEITH

for moving

Call . .. 282-8410

WE’LL TAKE
YOUR LOAD

A Relocation Service
Since I 973
Large enclosed van
Every job owner supervised
Reasonable rates
Extremely careful
Call Art
282-8085

PEACHES PAINTING

LOW COST INTERIOR/EXTERIOR PAINTING
QUALITY WORKMANSHIP
FREE ESTIMATES

Jim/Ken

863-8306

Painting, Etc.

Smoothest Job - Sweetest Rates
Free Estimates - Guaranteed

DickStingel 563-8648

ELECTRICAL

CONTRACTOR

I CUSTOM LIGHTING
I TENANT-METERED HEATING
I FREE ESTIMATES
I FAST, QUALITY WORK

Cristopher

Electric

( 415 ) 626-2314

HANDYMAN SERVICES

OEhERAL CARPEMTRY 8l REPAIR5

Redwood Decks, Fences
Mimor Electrical fit Plumbing
Paimtimg - Locks - Mauling

Free Estimates

Call Jack 626-7692

yAicfiee/l

7urmture%stordtion

Antiques a Specialty

Stripping & Refinishing
(thoughtfully done by hand)
Custom Finishes
In House Touch-up Work
Estimates • Mover’s insurance
(415)285-4332

FITZGERALD

ELECTRIC

Commercial

Residential

285-1370 or 282-3720

State License 402757

REMODELING
Interior Painting

e

GARDEN STRUCTURES

Retaining Walls • Fences • Decks
Garden Rooms • Brick Work
Drainage Systems • Concrete

FERGUSON

CONSTRUCTION

-State License No. 404835

755-6637

Day or Evening

! iMA

No Lemons. George H. Young, Car
Buying Consultant. Fee as low as
$50. 664-8252 E2i

STUFF THAT
MAILBOX

Make clients come again with
form letters from the fastest fin¬
gers in the West. I’ll take your
hot copy and ram it into my big
word processor. Then I’ll stroke
my eager keyboard until my big
electronic tool shoots it all out.
Soon you can take that huge
load home, cram it into enve¬
lopes dripping with anticipation
and feed them Jo your postman’s
hungry mail slot until he begs for
more. You WILL get those form
letters in the mail.

GEORGE 861-6409

SERVICES

Photos by Rink 431 - 3236

Wednesday $2. OO

LOCKER SPECIAL

MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED

I.D.REQUIRED

8-4 IO

- CABINETMAKERS

(D.E.F.GJ ERIC &
DANIEL

FURNITURE 431-7180

Painting & Drywall

$n/c\icil fixicum

tZc/ot *€tmouMaficti /’«/Hatching

■ fflahei Sfiefiaii ! a// tP'iefi

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COMPLETE

HOUSECLEANING

Residential • Apartments
Homes • Flats • Offices
Walls • Windows • Stoves

Honest & Reliable

We work Saturday & Sunday

Arrangements Day or Eve.

RICHARD'S MEN
821-3330

UNCENSORED

PHOTOFINISHING

Kodacolor type films in 110 ,126, or 135 size.
— Borderless or Matte Finish —

CASTRO VILLAGE MALL
2275 Market Street
CAMBtAftVMOInc. 861-4600

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BAY AREA REPORTER APRIL 21, 1983 PAGE 3*

All New Menu —

specializing in fresh fish and
popular standards like
Roast Loin of Pork,

Old Fashioned Pot Roast,

Grilled Calf's Liver, Sweetbreads

Now serving Late Suppers
Tuesday through Saturday
starting at 10 p.m.

featuring
light selections
from our regular menu
plus sandwiches and salads.
Great for after the theatre,
movies, or working late.

• Sunday Brunch - 11:00 A.M. •

• Lunches (Monday — Friday) - 11:30 A.M. •

• Dinner Nightly - 5:30 P.M. •

Late Suppers (Tuesday — Saturday) - 10:00 P.M

Visa / MasterCard Accepted

< wf 'd Restaurant & Bar 398 Hayes at Gough

626-3930

Introducing

BAY AREA REPORTER APRIL 21, 1983 PAGE 36